William L. Patterson

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American Politician

William Lorenzo Patterson was an African-American leader in the Communist Party USA and head of the International Labor Defense, a group that offered legal representation to communists, trade unionists, and African Americans in cases involving... Wikipedia

Born: August 27, 1891, San Francisco, CA

Died: March 5, 1980 (age 88 years), New York

Books: The man who cried genocide, Lao-English Dictionary, and Four Score Years in Freedom's Fight: A Tribute to William L. Patterson on the Occasion of Celebrating His 80th Birthday, Chicago, Illinois, October 22, 1971, Speeches of Claude Lightfoot and William L. Patterson

Party: Communist Party USA

Spouse: Louise Thompson Patterson (m. 1940)

Organizations founded: Civil Rights Congress and Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science

Education: Tamalpais High School (1911)