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Patrice Barnes is a Canadian politician and former school trustee who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (MPP) from 2022 to 2025. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, she represented the riding of Ajax.
1942–
Patricia A. King (born June 12, 1942) is an American lawyer, educator and civil rights activist who is a professor of law emeritus at Georgetown University Law Center and an adjunct professor in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins…
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Carolyn Patricia "Pat" Alsup (born September 24, 1950) is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to the Gambia. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on June 8, 2015, and confirmed by the Senate on October 8, 2015.
Biography
Patricia Lee (born 1974 or 1975) is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Nevada Supreme Court since 2022.
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Patricia Roberts Harris (May 31, 1924 – March 23, 1985) was an American politician, diplomat, and legal scholar. She served as the 6th United States secretary of housing and urban development from 1977 to 1979 and as the 13th United States secretary of…
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Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, (born 19 August 1955), is a Dominican-British barrister and politician who served as the sixth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2016 to 2025. She was the first woman to hold that…
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Patricia Stephens Due (December 9, 1939 – February 7, 2012) was one of the leading African-American civil rights activists in her home state of Florida. Along with her sister Priscilla and others trained in nonviolent protest by CORE, Due spent 49 days in…
1984–
Patricia Moore Taft (born December 18, 1984) is an American interior architectural designer, philanthropist, and member of the Taft political dynasty. She is a granddaughter of U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft and a great-granddaughter of U.S. President William…
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Patricia Ann "Pat" Timmons-Goodson (born September 18, 1954) is an American judge and politician who served on the North Carolina Supreme Court from 2006 to 2012. She previously served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights and is a former nominee…
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Patrick DeAngelo Cannon (born November 27, 1966) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served on the City Council of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1994 through 2013 and was subsequently elected the city's 56th Mayor in November…
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Patrick Henry Reason, first named Patrice Rison (March 17, 1816 – August 12, 1898), was one of the earliest African-American engravers and lithographers in the United States. He was active as an abolitionist (along with his brother Charles Lewis Reason).…
1967–
Patrick "Pat" Labat is an American law enforcement officer and the 28th Sheriff of Fulton County, whose handling of conditions inside the Fulton County Jail has drawn multiple inmate-death lawsuits, and a federal civil rights investigation by the United…
Biography
Patrick T. Price (died 1890) was a state legislator in Arkansas. He represented Lee County, Arkansas in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1877 as a Republican. His fellow Lee County representative was Crockett Brown.
1961–
Sir Patrick Philip Vernon (born 1961) is a British social commentator and political activist of Jamaican heritage, who works in the voluntary sector and public sector. He is a former Labour councillor in the London Borough of Hackney. His career has been…
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Patrisse Marie Khan-Cullors Brignac (née Cullors-Brignac; born June 20, 1983) is an American progressive activist, artist, and writer who co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement. Cullors created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in 2013 and has written and…
1937–
Patsy Jo Hilliard (b. (1937-08-20)August 20, 1937) is an African-American educator, education administrator, and the former mayor of East Point, Georgia. She was the first woman to be a member of the South San Francisco Unified School District and the…
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Patricia Ngozi Komlosy OBE (née Ebigwei; born 3 May 1954), known professionally as Patti Boulaye , is a British-Nigerian singer, actress and artist who rose to prominence after winning New Faces in 1978 and was among the leading black British entertainers…
1951–
Boateng broke barriers in British politics, becoming the UK’s first Black cabinet minister in 2002.
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Bogle organized communities against injustice and poverty, leading the 1865 protest remembered as the Morant Bay Rebellion.
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Kwame Montsho Ajamu Somburu (born Paul Benjamin Boutelle; October 13, 1934 – May 3, 2016) was an activist, politician, black nationalist, and member of the Socialist Workers Party. In 1979, he changed his name to Kwame Montsho Ajamu Somburu.
1964–
Paul Clinton Harris (born March 31, 1964) is a former Delegate of Albemarle County, Virginia, in the Virginia House of Delegates. He graduated from Hampton University in 1986 with a B.A. in political science. Harris served as a 1st lieutenant in military…
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William Paul Coates (born July 4, 1946) is an American publisher, printer and community activist. In 1978, he founded the Black Classic Press (BCP), devoted to publishing works significant to people of African descent, particularly previously out-of-print…
March 14, 2024
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oral history interview and conversation with book publisher and community activist Paul Coates. It consists of three versions of digital video recording, two camera card files (2025.12.12.1.1 and 2025.12.12.1.2, .mxf files) and one edited file…
1906–2002
Paul Bertau Cornely (March 9, 1906 – February 9, 2002) was an American physician, public health pioneer, and civil rights activist. In 1934, he became the first African American to earn a doctoral degree in public health. He was elected President of the…
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