Maurice J. Casey

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William L Patterson, a leading figure in the defence of the Scottboro Boys, was born in 1891 in San Francisco, the son of a formerly enslaved woman.

During his legal studies, Patterson worked at a San Francisco hotel. It was here that he befriended an Irish regular at the hotel, an activist named Rose Murphy. ‘She would often stop in the lobby to talk with me about my studies’, Patterson later recalled ‘From this Irish revolutionary I learned that whites oppressed other whites all over the world. Oppression was not determined solely or even chiefly by skin color. One had to look beyond color to reach the core of the matter’.
I’m in the library to read Scottsboro Limited, a 1932 play by Langston Hughes about the case of the “Scottsboro Boys”, nine African American teenagers who were sentenced to death in Alabama on a false accusation of rape.
Tune into BBC Radio 4 at 13:45 today to hear me talking about the time in 2018 I took a Moscow underground to the suburbs to see the radio tower that broadcasted the world revolution.
If we ever establish a National Museum of the Celtic Tiger this sealed packet of nuclear emergency tablets from 2002 would be my donation to the collection. What would you donate?
A late-1940s portrait of the Harmels, an Irish Jewish family of anti-apartheid activists.
On the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, I’m remembering the time I visited the Stumbling Monk, a craft beer bar in Seattle with portraits of Collins AND Dev on the wall. Side by side.
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