patterson and the civil rights congress. this was a very significant effort. it's got a tremendous amount of international support. turning pointk, a in our struggle against jim crow. it put the international spotlight on the united states at a time when it was prattling all over the world about alleged human rights violations in other countries. robeson-patterson petition made the u.s. authorities seem like what they were, which was hypocrites. and malcolm x of course talked about taking the u.s. authorities to international bodies, and traveled a great deal to that end. you may know the 1970's, the national conference of black lawyers tried to do the same thing. it is an idea that won't go away because it does not seem that our problems are going away anytime soon. there are only so many remedies and solutions to our problem, one of which is trying to make more friends and allies in the international community to lengthen the battlefield, to not be restricted to the four ,orners of the united states where future folks may suggest that a retrograde reactionary forces have a certain amount of capability and potency. the way that we outflank them, the way we d