عنوان

Louise Thompson Patterson :

(Number (ISBN

0822369850

(Number (ISBN

0822369923

(Number (ISBN

9780822369851

(Number (ISBN

9780822369929

Title Proper

Louise Thompson Patterson :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a life of struggle for justice /

First Statement of Responsibility

Keith Gilyard.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Durham :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Duke University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 302 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Louise Alone, 1901-1916 -- California community, 1917-1925 -- Shades of control, 1925-1928 -- Harlem kaleidoscope, 1928-1932 -- Madam Moscow, 1932 -- The struggle has nine lives, 1932-1934 -- Popular fronts, 1935-1937 -- Ba ba ba bop, 1937-1940 -- Bronzeville brigades, 1941-1949 -- Sojourns and sojourners, 1949-1959 -- A fairer public hearing, 1960-1969 -- Confirming commitments, 1970-1984 -- Still reaching, 1984-1999.

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Text of Note

Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African American politics. Throughout most of the twentieth century she embodied a dedicated resistance to racial, economic, and gender exploitation. In this, the first biography of Patterson, Keith Gilyard tells her compelling story, from her childhood on the West Coast, where she suffered isolation and persecution, to her participation in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. In the 1930s and 1940s she became central, along with Paul Robeson, to the labor movement, and later, in the 1950s, she steered proto-black-femmist activities. Patterson was also crucial to the efforts in the 1970s to free political prisoners, most notably Angela Davis. In the 1980s and 1990s she continued to work as a progressive activist and public intellectual. To read her story is to witness the courage, sacrifice, vision, and discipline of someone who spent decades working to achieve justice and liberation tor all. Book jacket.

Title

Louise Thompson Patterson.

International Standard Book Number

9780822372318

Patterson, Louise Thompson,1901-1999.

Patterson, Louise Thompson,1901-1999.

African American communists, Biography.

African American women political activists, Biography.

African American women social reformers, Biography.

African American communists.

African American women political activists.

African American women social reformers.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Women.

HISTORY-- United States-- 20th Century.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Black Studies (Global)

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Gilyard, Keith,1952-

Date of Transaction

20200822140645.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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