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Edwin T. Pratt (December 6, 1930 – January 26, 1969) was an American activist during the Civil Rights Movement. At the time of his assassination in 1969, he was Executive Director of the Seattle Urban League .
Edwin Pratt may refer to: Edwin T. Pratt (1930–1969), American civil rights activist; Edwin H. Baker Pratt (1913–1975), American educator and headmaster of Buckingham Browne & Nichols; Edwin Hartley Pratt (1849–1930), American homeopath and founder of orificial surgery; E. J. Pratt (1882–1964), Canadian poet
Edwin Howard Baker Pratt (June 5, 1913 – March 18, 1975), was an American educator and headmaster of Buckingham Browne & Nichols. Early life.
An 1886 portrait. Edwin Hartley Pratt (1849–1930), or E.H. Pratt, was an American practitioner of homeopathic medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He originated the briefly popular practice of "orificial surgery", which sought to cure a variety of physical and psychological ills by surgical corrections to the various orifices of the body.
Edwin John Dove Pratt CMG FRSC (February 4, 1882 – April 26, 1964), [1] who published as E. J. Pratt, was a Canadian poet. [2] Originally from Newfoundland , Pratt lived most of his life in Toronto , Ontario .
In 1904, [2] Pratt married Ruth Sears Baker (1877–1965), a Wellesley College graduate and the daughter of Edwin K. Baker, a Massachusetts dry-goods merchant. [3] In 1929, two years after his eventual death in 1927, Ruth became the first woman elected to the United States Congress from the State of New York . [ 4 ]
Pratt was founded in 1976 by the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation [2] and named in honor of slain civil rights leader Edwin T. Pratt. [3] In 1982 it was turned over to a newly created 501(c)(3) non-profit, City Art Works. [2] Since then, Pratt has grown into a nearly $3 million annual budget.
Pratt Park is a public park operated by Seattle Parks and Recreation, in the U.S. state of Washington. Named after Edwin T. Pratt, the founder of the Central Area Motivation Program and the Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center, [ 1 ] it has basketball courts, [ 2 ] a playground, and a spray park. [ 3 ]