Louise Thompson Patterson : A Life of Struggle for Justice

Gilyard, Keith

Duke University Press（2017/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822369851
• DDC分類 B

Full Description

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-feminist 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 for all.

Contents

List of Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgments   xi
Introduction 1
1. Louise Alone, 1901-1916  7
2. California Community, 1917-1925  26
3. Shades of Control, 1925-1928  42
4. Harlem Kaleidoscope, 1928-1932  61
5. Madam Moscow, 1932   81
6. The Struggle Has Nine Lives, 1932-1934  97
7. Popular Fronts, 1935-1937  113
8. Ba Ba Ba Bop, 1937-1940  129
9. Bronzeville Brigades, 1941-1949  145
10. Sojourns and Sojourners, 1949-1959  162
11. A Fairer Public Hearing, 1960-1969  182
12. Confirming Commitments, 1970-1984  195
13. Still Reaching, 1984-1999  212
Notes  231
Bibliography  271
Index  283