‘I wanted a Communist philosophy, but I wanted us to have a chance to organize our people’: the diasporic radicalism of Queen Mother Audley Moore and the origins of black power

McDuffie, Erik S.

doi:10.1080/17528631.2010.481968

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“…It was within this global context that WCG became 'the most damning human rights report on Jim Crow written during the Cold War'. 89 In the months surrounding its publication as a book, the CRC forged alliances with labor unions, civil rights leaders and student organizations throughout the Western hemisphere, as well as in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Burma. 90 These ties sharpened Patterson's understanding of how political moderates at home and abroad were implicated in the imperial plunder of what is now called the Global South.…”

Section: The Antifascist and Anti-imperialist Roots Of We Charge Genomentioning

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“We Charge Genocide”: Revisiting black radicals’ appeals to the world community1

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In 1951, black radical William Patterson presented the United Nations with a petition, emblazoned with the title We Charge Genocide. The document charged the US government with snuffing out tens of thousands of black lives each year, through police violence and the systemic neglect of black citizens' well-being. While historians have tended to discuss We Charge Genocide as a remarkable but brief episode, the petition built on prior attempts to invoke international law on behalf of African Americans and resonated with later generations of black activists whose political activism transcended more limited and domestic notions of civil rights. These later invocations of the genocide charge spanned the black left, including the Black Panther Party, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, James Baldwin and black feminists. This essay explores how the historical memory of racial violence, including settler colonialism and the slave trade, inspired an ideologically diverse array of organizations to each connect their experience to global histories of racial oppression. It stresses the internationalist and anticolonial perspective of the genocide charge and its proponents' economic and transnational critique, thereby contributing to the historiographies of the long civil rights movement and black radicalism. By invoking international law, these black radicals connected the civil rights movement in the US to the struggle for human rights worldwide. Finally, the essay considers how integrating the local, national and global scales of racialized violence and its response enables historians to transnationalize the long civil rights movement paradigm.

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Section: The Antifascist and Anti-imperialist Roots Of We Charge Genomentioning

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“We Charge Genocide”: Revisiting black radicals’ appeals to the world community1

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“We Have Reconquered the Islands”: Figurations in Public Memories of Slavery and Colonialism in Denmark 1948–2012

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2013

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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Garveyism in Cleveland, Ohio and the history of the diasporic Midwest, 1920–1975

McDuffie

2011

African Identities

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‘I wanted a Communist philosophy, but I wanted us to have a chance to organize our people’: the diasporic radicalism of Queen Mother Audley Moore and the origins of black power

Cited by 21 publications

References 23 publications

“We Charge Genocide”: Revisiting black radicals’ appeals to the world community1

“We Charge Genocide”: Revisiting black radicals’ appeals to the world community1

“We Have Reconquered the Islands”: Figurations in Public Memories of Slavery and Colonialism in Denmark 1948–2012

Garveyism in Cleveland, Ohio and the history of the diasporic Midwest, 1920–1975

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