Spokane
Phyllis Patricia (Pat) Black was born in Clatskanie, Columbia County, Oregon, on June 5, 1931, to Russell Lowell Carver and Phyllis Jenks. She died in Sunriver, Deschutes County, Oregon, on February 12, 2023. She graduated from Westport High School near Clatskanie, Oregon, where her family owned and operated a dairy farm. In 1949 at the […]
Williams, who founded The Black Lens newspaper and the Carl Maxey Center, was a champion of causes that affect Spokane’s marginalized communities, particularly Black residents. She and her partner Patricia Hicks, a retired teacher, were among 10 people killed in a floatplane crash off Whidbey Island on September 4. The news of Williams’ death stunned […]
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