Louise Thompson Patterson

And as he's talking and thinking with them, as he's sitting there next to William Patterson.

With Louise Thompson Patterson there, it's quite a film.

As he's sitting there, the question he asks, you know, is what does this mean today? How does this move forward today? And they're all thinking about that.

But Clark is laser focused then and was laser focused later in his life when I got a chance to sit and be with him.

Talking about Marcus Garvey with Richard B. Moore, who was friends with Marcus Garvey.

To see Richard B. Moore and John Henry Clark talk about politics.

To see William and Louise Thompson Patterson, the incredible couple, talk about the meaning of collective action and ideology.

Man, I'm saying that's William Thompson.

So it's important to put that in context in terms of the social structure around what Dr.

Du Bois was doing in the late 40s, because he and his wife, Shirley Graham, along with their friends and comrades, S.E. Robeson and Paul Robeson and William Thompson Patterson, Louise Thompson Patterson, whose daughter continues to fight with both hands, who was reminding us, reminded us.

at the National Conference of Black Lawyers convening a couple of weeks ago that we are on the 75th anniversary of another petition before the UN that they launched after the one that I'm going to read from in a moment, after this appeal to the world in 1947.

Four years later, Mary Louise Patterson, who's still with us, still fighting with Bo Fiz, her parents, along with the Du Boises and the Robesons and others, presented in 1951 a petition called We Charge Genocide.

Like, add.

[laughs] My absolute favorite person that I have discovered in Black history, traveled to Georgia to see her, to read her papers, is Louise Thompson Patterson.

Mm.

Mm.

The people that we don't...

I love that, that our film introduces people like Louise Thompson Patterson, um, who's in, in our film, and we don't really talk about her.

It, she doesn't really talk about, we don't see her activism, but she was an important activist that, you know, I just hope that it makes people kind of curious about, to learn more about the people that they see, you know, on the screen.

Yeah.

But she licks her wounds, and she moves to New York City roughly around 1930, where she joins a community of Harlem Renaissance writers and thinkers, people like Dorothy West, Langston Hughes, as I mentioned before, Zora Neale Hurston.

Louise Thompson Patterson, this is when she meets the man who will become her third husband, Henry Moon.

She meets him.

Looks like you cut out just there for briefly.

And as I mentioned, just the freedom to walk the streets of Moscow and not have to worry about the color line and the ways that they did in the United States, even in a city like New York, which was rather progressive, relatively speaking.

So she took in all the sights and sounds, even after the film busts up.

She and Langston Hughes and Louise Thompson Patterson, the film's coordinator, they become guests of the state and are able to tour through Uzbekistan and other parts of the USSR that are typically off limits to Western travelers.

They got to explore those areas.