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LOUISE THOMPSON-PATTERSON
She was also a literary figure, whose Vanguard Salon offered writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, a forum in which to share their works under development. She and Hughes enjoyed a decades’ long friendship and were political comrades. Together, they founded the Suitcase Theater.
Thompson Patterson was in the Movement for the long haul, and forty years after risking her life, organizing in Alabama, she worked for the freedom of Angela Davis. Driven by her credo, “No one is free until all are free,” as a Communist, Thompson Patterson devoted her entire life to struggling for world liberation from economic, racial, and gender-based inequities. For a time, she was married to William Patterson, an attorney for the Scottsboro Boys.
LOUISE ALONE THOMPSON PATTERSON: IN HER OWN WORDS TRAILER
A short documentary tracing the life and times of Louise Alone Thompson Patterson, a civil rights and labor activist who was dubbed “Madame Moscow” for her role in America’s communist movement. For educational streaming, visit twn.tugg.com
LAST WORDS FROM LOUISE THOMPSON PATTERSON
Born in September 9, 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was an African-American feminist and prominent CPUSA member. She is noted as an early formulator of feminist intersectionality theory, as a leader in the movement to free the Scottsboro Boys in the 1930s, and as a writer and social figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s. In 1960s and 1970s, Louise mentored young black activists such as The New York Black Panther leadership, and the CPUSA’s Black Liberation Committee, who met re