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Rod Boggs index, 2022-06-10
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc042_07_ind.pdf
Abstract
Rod Boggs summarizes his education from elementary school in Rockville Center, New York through law school at Columbia University. He briefly mentions his work for the Ford Foundation in Africa and for Congressman Allard Lowenstein. The major focus of the interview is the educational advocacy that developed at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, under his leadership. He talks about programs that preceded Parents United: a project involving volunteer lawyers...
Dates:
2022-06-10
Rod Boggs interview video, 2022-06-10
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc042_07_v.mp4
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Rod Boggs summarizes his education from elementary school in Rockville Center, New York through law school at Columbia University. He briefly mentions his work for the Ford Foundation in Africa and for Congressman Allard Lowenstein. The major focus of the interview is the educational advocacy that developed at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, under his leadership. He talks about programs that preceded Parents United: a project involving volunteer lawyers...
Dates:
2022-06-10
Rod Boggs transcript, 2022-06-10
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc042_07_tra.pdf
Abstract
Rod Boggs summarizes his education from elementary school in Rockville Center, New York through law school at Columbia University. He briefly mentions his work for the Ford Foundation in Africa and for Congressman Allard Lowenstein. The major focus of the interview is the educational advocacy that developed at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, under his leadership. He talks about programs that preceded Parents United: a project involving volunteer lawyers...
Dates:
2022-06-10
Series 42: When Parents United for D.C.'s Public Schools, 2022
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc042
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For 30 years, Parents United was an effective champion for DC Public School students. This group was established in order to fight a catastrophic reduction in the DC Public Schools budget. The development of this remarkable advocacy began when Rod Boggs, who was executive director of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, was also a concerned school parent. In 1981, Rod’s leadership made it possible for the Washington Lawyers’ Committee to provide essential...
Dates:
2022