Louise Thompson Patterson was an American social activist and college professor. William Lorenzo Patterson, an attorney, was an African-American leader in the Communist Party USA and head of the International Labor Defense, a group that offered legal representation to communists, trade unionists, and African Americans in cases involving issues of political or racial persecution. Studio portrait of William Lorenzo Patterson with his wife, Louise Thompson Patterson, and their child, Mary Louise Patterson. Mary Louise Patterson is co-editor of Letters from Langston From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond (2016).
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African American communists African American civil rights workers African American lawyers Patterson, Louise Thompson, 1901-1999 Patterson, William L. (William Lorenzo), 1890-1980 Patterson, Mary Louise, 1943-
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