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Socialist Education Project webinar

Black Liberation in Literature

in Honor of Black History Month

Sponsored by CCDS Socialist Education Project

We are honored to be joined by Dr. MaryLouise Patterson and Bill Fletcher, Jr. for our 4th Monday program this month. both have many years in fighting for civil rights and justice and against racism. This month we will discuss with them particularly significant works they have been involved in creating..

Join award-winning journalist and lifelong social justice advocate Bill Fletcher, Jr., for the

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

launch of his first work of fiction: The Man Who Fell From the Sky, a crime novel. Bill will discuss his novel’s exploration of racism and inequality through the eyes of a young journalist of Cape Verdean descent who investigates a murder in a small Cape Cod community in 1970 while covering the anti-Viet Nam War protests and the Black Panthers. Bill will also discuss the unique ways in which a work of fiction can explore and reveal important truths about the human condition, as well as touch the heart and stir a people to take action.

Dr. Mary Louise Patterson Co-Edited Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare


Dr.. MaryLouise Patterson

and Beyond along with Evelyn Louise Crawford. The parents of both women were close friends with Langston Hughes for close to forty years. MaryLouise was a ‘red diaper baby’. Her parents, Louise and Williamson Patterson, were life long activists for justice and against racism and members in the Communist Party. This indispensable volume of letters between Hughes and four leftist confidants sheds vivid light on his life and politics. Dr. Patterson is a retired pediatrician and a life long fighter for civil rights and against racism in all its forms.

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