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Patterson ran the Chicago Communist Party training school, the [[Abraham Lincoln School]]. Its earlier name was the Worker's School of Chicago. The Communist Party USA had a series of schools to both train Communist Party cadre and attract non-communist young people. Patterson's taught courses among in the first category while his friend and associate [[Frank Marshall Davis]]'s worked among the second group.

Patterson ran the Chicago Communist Party training school, the [[Abraham Lincoln School]]. Its earlier name was the Worker's School of Chicago. The Communist Party USA had a series of schools to both train Communist Party cadre and attract non-communist young people. Patterson's taught courses among in the first category while his friend and associate [[Frank Marshall Davis]]'s worked among the second group.

Patterson also was on the editorial board of the Communist publication, the ''[[Chicago Star]]''.

Patterson served as secretary the [[Communist front]] [[International Labopr Defense]] (ILD) and headed the [[Civil Rights Congress]].<ref>Gerald Horne, [http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/civil-rights-congress-1946-1956 ''Communist Front? The Civil Rights Congress, 1946-1956''] (Rutherford:  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987); Horne, ''Civil Rights Congress,'' in Mary Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas, eds., ''Encyclopedia of the American Left'' (New York: Garland Publishing, 1990), 134-135, BlackPast.org</ref>  Patterson also was on the editorial board of the Communist publication, the ''[[Chicago Star]]''.

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