(Russian: Ллойд Уолтон Паттерсон)
The American cast of Black and White traveled to Moscow on a trip organized by the German-Russian Communist film company Meschrabpom, with support from the Harlem chapter of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Organized by the social and political activist Louise Thompson, the group comprised twenty-two members, among whom were Lloyd Patterson, the poet and writer Langston Hughes, the actor Wayland Rudd, the author Dorothy West, and the singer Sylvia Garner.
After the film was canceled, rather than return home, several members of what was known in the newspapers as the "Moscow Movie Group" decided to travel in the Soviet Union, an experience Hughes described in his 1956 book I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey. Most of this smaller group remained in the country for only a limited time as tourists, yet a few members decided to build a new life in the Soviet Union. Some were attracted to the idea of a new society that promised racial equality. Others found that they were able to achieve a level of professional success nearly unimaginable in the United States at the time due to Jim Crow laws.
Lloyd Patterson married the Ukrainian artist and fashion designer Vera Aralova, with whom he had three children (depicted sleeping in Aralova's painting My Sons, reproduced below, and photographed with a census worker). He also found work as an interior designer, a theatrical set designer, and a radio announcer before dying in 1942.
The American cast of Black and White traveled to Moscow on a trip organized by the German-Russian Communist film company Meschrabpom, with support from the Harlem chapter of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Organized by the social and political activist Louise Thompson, the group comprised twenty-two members, among whom were Lloyd Patterson, the poet and writer Langston Hughes, the actor Wayland Rudd, the author Dorothy West, and the singer Sylvia Garner.
After the film was canceled, rather than return home, several members of what was known in the newspapers as the "Moscow Movie Group" decided to travel in the Soviet Union, an experience Hughes described in his 1956 book I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey. Most of this smaller group remained in the country for only a limited time as tourists, yet a few members decided to build a new life in the Soviet Union. Some were attracted to the idea of a new society that promised racial equality. Others found that they were able to achieve a level of professional success nearly unimaginable in the United States at the time due to Jim Crow laws.
Lloyd Patterson married the Ukrainian artist and fashion designer Vera Aralova, with whom he had three children (depicted sleeping in Aralova's painting My Sons, reproduced below, and photographed with a census worker). He also found work as an interior designer, a theatrical set designer, and a radio announcer before dying in 1942.
(Russian: Ллойд Уолтон Паттерсон)
The American cast of Black and White traveled to Moscow on a trip organized by the German-Russian Communist film company Meschrabpom, with support from the Harlem chapter of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Organized by the social and political activist Louise Thompson, the group comprised twenty-two members, among whom were Lloyd Patterson, the poet and writer Langston Hughes, the actor Wayland Rudd, the author Dorothy West, and the singer Sylvia Garner.
After the film was canceled, rather than return home, several members of what was known in the newspapers as the "Moscow Movie Group" decided to travel in the Soviet Union, an experience Hughes described in his 1956 book I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey. Most of this smaller group remained in the country for only a limited time as tourists, yet a few members decided to build a new life in the Soviet Union. Some were attracted to the idea of a new society that promised racial equality. Others found that they were able to achieve a level of professional success nearly unimaginable in the United States at the time due to Jim Crow laws.
Lloyd Patterson married the Ukrainian artist and fashion designer Vera Aralova, with whom he had three children (depicted sleeping in Aralova's painting My Sons, reproduced below, and photographed with a census worker). He also found work as an interior designer, a theatrical set designer, and a radio announcer before dying in 1942.
The American cast of Black and White traveled to Moscow on a trip organized by the German-Russian Communist film company Meschrabpom, with support from the Harlem chapter of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Organized by the social and political activist Louise Thompson, the group comprised twenty-two members, among whom were Lloyd Patterson, the poet and writer Langston Hughes, the actor Wayland Rudd, the author Dorothy West, and the singer Sylvia Garner.
After the film was canceled, rather than return home, several members of what was known in the newspapers as the "Moscow Movie Group" decided to travel in the Soviet Union, an experience Hughes described in his 1956 book I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey. Most of this smaller group remained in the country for only a limited time as tourists, yet a few members decided to build a new life in the Soviet Union. Some were attracted to the idea of a new society that promised racial equality. Others found that they were able to achieve a level of professional success nearly unimaginable in the United States at the time due to Jim Crow laws.
Lloyd Patterson married the Ukrainian artist and fashion designer Vera Aralova, with whom he had three children (depicted sleeping in Aralova's painting My Sons, reproduced below, and photographed with a census worker). He also found work as an interior designer, a theatrical set designer, and a radio announcer before dying in 1942.
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