against the status quo, Patterson, amongst many other black female Social Activist during this era helped pave the way for future activists pertaining to civil rights issues in the United States. External links FBI file on Louise Thompson Patterson Sojourners of Truth and Justice Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Louise Thompson Patterson papers, 1909-1999 Subversives: Stories from the Red Scare. Lesson by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca at the Zinn Education Project (Louise Thompson Patterson is featured in this lesson). Further reading Howard, Walter T. We Shall Be Free!: Black Communist Protests in Seven Voices. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2013. McDuffie, Erik S., Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism Roman, M. L, Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 2012 Keith Gilyard, Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice, published by Duke University Press, 2017. References 1901 births 1999 deaths African-American academics Activists for African-American civil rights People from Chicago Harlem Renaissance Women civil rights activists 20th-century African-American people