Author: Miguel Salazar
\ Published on: 23/06/2025 | 00:00:00

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\ James Lloydovich Patterson, 91, Dies; Soviet Poet and Symbol of Racial Unity Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.R. As a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and international solidarity. At 3 years old, Mr. Patterson played Jimmy, the lovable Black son of a white singer, an outcast from American society, who joins a circus troupe in Moscow. James Lloydovich Patterson was born on July 17, 1933, in Moscow. His mother, Vera Aralova, was a Ukrainian painter and theatrical set designer. By then, a small contingent of Black Americans had set roots in the Soviet Union. Lloyd Patterson was an English-language radio host for the Soviet state. He died later that year from complications of a concussion he sustained from a German aerial bombing. In 1943, James and his mother returned to Moscow, where he attended the Nakhimov Naval School in Riga, Latvia. After graduating in 1962, he published his first poetry collection, “Russia and Africa” “Chronicle of the Left Hand,” his only book to appear in English, was published in 2022; translated by Jennifer E. Sunseri, it recounts the life of his grandmother Margaret Glascoe, a formerly enslaved sharecropper in Virginia. Mr. Patterson’s creative output dwindled after his mother died in 2001; his younger brother Lloyd Jr. Died in 1961; another younger brother, Tom, died in 2023.

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