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Pat Parker

January 22, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Pat Parker was born on January 20, 1944 (to June 19, 1989). She was an influential lesbian and feminist poet and activist. Given the name Patricia Cooks at birth, Pat Parker was born in Houston, Texas, the youngest of four daughters in a Black working class family. Her mother, Marie Louise Cooks, was a domestic worker, and her father, Ernest Nathaniel Cooks, supported the family by re-treading tires. Urged by her father to take “the freedom train of education,” Parker […]

Categories: All, January, January 20, Parker, Pat • Tags: 1944, 1989, January 20, June 19, Pat Parker, Ubuntu Biography Project

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