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. Bernard Thompson was his brother.

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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