Having cancelled their original plans as a result of the weather, Pratt and his wife Bettye were looking forward to "a quiet evening by the fireplace" ( The Stranger). On the ill-fated Sunday evening of January 26, 1969, the city of Shoreline was covered in snow. He joined the Urban League and served in Cleveland and Kansas City before his appointment in 1956 as Community Relations Secretary of the Seattle Urban League. He attended Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, and received a Master's degree in Social Work from Atlanta University. Pratt was born December 6, 1930, in Miami, Florida. On January 26, 1969, civil rights leader and Seattle Urban League Executive Director Edwin Pratt (1930-1969) is killed by a shotgun blast in the doorway of his home at 17916 1st Avenue NE in Shoreline.Įdwin T.
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