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'''William L. Patterson''' (b. 1891) belonged to the [[Communist Party USA]] from 1926 to 1929 and transferred membership to the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] from 1929 to 1936. When he was appointed to the Central Committee of the American Communist Party, he resumed his membership in it. He was a delegate to the Sixth Congress of the [[Communist International]] in 1928 and to the Tenth Plenum of the Executive of the Comintern in 1930. He also served as an official of the [[Red International of Labor Unions]] and as a representative of the Communist International in [[France]].<ref>Comintern Archives Fond 495, Opis 74, Delo 467, pp. 29-30, quoted in [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/who.frank.marshall.davis.pdf ''Who Was Frank Marshall Davis?''], Herbert Romerstein, USASurvival.org, p.8, 20-21.</ref>
Patterson ran the Chicago Communist Party training school, the [[Abraham Lincoln School]]. Its earlier name was the Worker's School of Chicago. The Communist Party USA had a series of schools to both train Communist Party cadre and attract non-communist young people. Patterson's taught courses among in the first category while his friend and associate [[Frank Marshall Davis]]'s worked among the second group.
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Patterson ran the Chicago Communist Party training school, the [[Abraham Lincoln School]]. Its earlier name was the Worker's School of Chicago. The Communist Party USA had a series of schools to both train Communist Party cadre and attract non-communist young people. Patterson's taught courses among in the first category while his friend and associate [[Frank Marshall Davis]]'s worked among the second group.
==References==
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[[Category:Communists]]