page_title: Louise Thompson Patterson
section_title: Later Years
hierarchical_section_title: Louise Thompson Patterson / Later Years
caption_attribution_description: English: 1928 picture of Wallace Thurman, which is in the public domain.
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 joined her husband in protesting the anti-Communist policies of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. In the 1960s, she was involved in the Civil Rights Movement, though by that time her influence was greatly overshadowed by more notable figures.
  Patterson died of natural causes on August 27, 1999, shortly before her ninety-eighth birthday, in New York City. For the remainder of her life, Patterson continued to be active in political and social issues.
caption: Wallace Thurman
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