Noah Davis Thompson

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Noah Davis Thompson (died 1933) was an American writer, editor, publisher, and Civil Rights leader in the United States. [1] [2]

Personal life

His first wife died as a result of complications related to the birth of their son. [1] A few years later he married writer Eloise Bibb Thompson. [3] They married in Chicago in 1911 [4] and moved to Los Angeles. [5] C. Bertrand Thompson was his brother. His niece was Anita Thompson

After his second wife died, he married Hattie Upton and they lived in the Dunbar Garden Apartments. [1]

He was a Catholic. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "March 1933 Noah D Thompson obit". The New York Age. 25 March 1933. p. 1.
  2. ↑ Garvey, Marcus; Hill, Robert A. (November 19, 1984). The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. III: September 1920-August 1921. University of California Press. ISBN   9780520052574 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Allmendinger, Blake (May 19, 2015). A History of California Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9781316299074 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Peterson, Bernard L. (May 4, 1990). Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers: A Biographical Directory and Catalog of Plays, Films, and Broadcasting Scripts. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN   9780313266218 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Knopf-Newman, Marcy Jane (May 4, 1993). The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women . Rutgers University Press. p.  272 – via Internet Archive. noah davis thompson.
  6. ↑ Aberjhani (2003). Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Sandra L. West. New York: Facts On File, Inc. ISBN   978-1-4381-3017-0. OCLC   642206211.


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