East, P. D.
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| Birthname | Percy Dale East | ||||
| born on | 26 November 1921 at 08:00 (= 08:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Columbia, Mississippi, 31n15, 89w50 | ||||
| Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American civil rights activist, as the founder, editor and publisher of The Petal Paper from 1953 to 1971, published in Petal, Mississippi. The Petal Paper advocated equal rights for African-Americans. P. D. East died on 31 December 1971, aged 50.
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m324.htm
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Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes from "The Case of The Petal Paper" by P. D. East, The New York Times, 28 July 1971 [1]: "At 8 o'clock on the morning of Nov. 26, 1921, I was born in the small town of Columbia, Miss."
Categories
- Family : Childhood : Adopted
- Family : Childhood : Only child
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ political (Civil rights activist)
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor ("The Petal Paper")
