Co-founder of Pan-African Training Institute passes

Charlotte Ann (Zubaidah) Price passed away on Thursday, June 21, 2007. Born in Boston on Aug. 9, 1943, Price grew up in Roxbury, where she attended Girls Latin. She graduated from the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in 1961, and later attended Fisk University and Northeastern University.

She was the daughter of the late Dr. William B. Price and Elizabeth McCree Price, the younger sister of William B. Price Jr., now deceased, and the older sister of Miriam Price-Eubanks of Roxbury. She was the granddaughter of George Gibbons and Carrie Steele Price.

Price was also the granddaughter of the late Wade and Lucretia McCree. A prominent Roxbury man who received the Bronze Star for valor during World War II, McCree was appointed by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 as a judge to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and served as U.S. Solicitor General in the 1970s under President Jimmy Carter. His name is inscribed in gold on the upper frieze of the Boston Latin School auditorium, alongside other notable alumni — John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Phillips Brooks.

Active in the Boston community, Price worked at the NAACP’s Positive Program of Boston, the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, the Council of Arts and Humanities and WGBH-TV, where she met her partner of 37 years, Mackie McLeod, now deceased. It was McLeod who would later call Price “Zubaidah,” a name by which she became affectionately known.

The two traveled abroad extensively, and while living in Dakar, Senegal, their beloved daughter Zambia McLeod-Davis was born. Later in life, Price and her sister Miriam co-founded the Pan-African Training Institute, a private home-schooling program in Roxbury for pre-school and elementary school children.

After returning to the United States in the 1990s, Price lived in Washington, D.C., where she worked for the Congressional Black Caucus.

She leaves behind her daughter Zambia, son-in-law Willie Davis and grandson Miles Dakari Davis; her sister Miriam and brother-in-law Anthony Eubanks; and a host of relatives and friends.

A memorial service will be held at St. Mark Congregational Church, 200 Townsend Street, Dorchester, on Wednesday, July 25 at 7 p.m. All are welcome.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in memory of Charlotte Ann Price to the Wellness Program at the Dimock Community Health Center, 55 Dimock St., Roxbury, MA, 02119.