page_title: Louise Thompson Patterson
section_title: Marriage and family
hierarchical_section_title: Louise Thompson Patterson / Marriage and family
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph
context_page_description: Louise Alone Thompson Patterson 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 into the University of California at Berkeley.
context_section_description: She had a short marriage to the writer Wallace Thurman. Thompson married Thurman in August 1928 but their marriage broke up six months later when she discovered that he was homosexual. She later married William L. Patterson, a prominent member of the American Communist Party.
caption: Louise Thompson and Langston Hughes on a ship.
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