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Louise Thompson Patterson : a life of struggle for justice / Keith Gilyard.
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Gilyard, Keith, 1952-
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English
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
©2017
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xii, 302 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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e-Duke Books Gender Studies Collection 2017
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E185.6 .G55 2017
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African American women political activists
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Biography
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African American women social reformers
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African American communists
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Patterson, Louise Thompson 1901-1999
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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ISBN
9780822369851 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
0822369850 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
9780822369929 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
0822369923 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2017015438
OCLC
968184938
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