1: Interview with MaryLouise Patterson

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Please pass this Interview around to your friends - with MaryLouise Patterson about her parents (William Patterson and Louise Patterson) long friendship with poet Langston Hughes through her new book, "Letters From Langston".
June 19, 2021, Qumran Report Host Melvin Ishmael Johnson interview MaryLouise Patterson. Website: Dramastage-qumran.org; Email: [e-mail]; Phone: [phone].
Louise Thompson Patterson (September 9, 1901 – August 27, 1999) was an American social activist and college professor. Thompson was acquainted with many of the leading literary figures during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, spending most of her life involved in civil rights. Thompson Patterson is also known as one of the first black women to be enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley.
William Lorenzo Patterson (August 27, 1891 – March 5, 1980) 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.
Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901[1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue."