![]() ![]() ![]() The son returned to the US after the collapse of the Soviet Union and was interviewed in a DC nursing home.) RT, the channel formerly known as Russia Today, broadcast a program about American Negroes in the USSR which included an interview with Patterson’s son, who showed a copy of this picture. Directly behind him is Lloyd Patterson, one of the three who decided to remain in the Soviet Union. (The film team aboard the Europa Langston Hughes is probably third from right in middle row. (Another member of this group was Loren Miller, whose Wikipedia biography describes his distinguished career as a judge in California but neglects to mention his youthful participation in this project.) At age 30, he was one of the older members of a group of black Americans, most of them recent college graduates, who had signed up to make a movie and spend an exciting summer abroad. ![]() Heeding the advice of Lincoln Steffens, who had already been there, he left San Francisco for New York and sailed across the Atlantic well supplied with soap and toilet paper. He begins with his visits to Haiti and Cuba, but the centerpiece concerns his sojourn in the Soviet Union. The bulk of this second volume of Hughes’ autobiography covers the relatively brief period from 1931-1933, yet is significantly longer than The Big Sea, which dealt with the first 28 years of his life. Edited with an Introduction by Joseph McLaren. ![]()
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