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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Peggy Cooper Cafritz
Peggy Cooper Cafritz
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| Other authors / contributors: | Cafritz, Peggy Cooper, 1947- interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Bieschke, Paul, director of photography.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Paul Bieschke.
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2001 June 26.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2012 June 26.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Education chief executive and high school administrator Peggy Cooper Cafritz was born on April 7, 1947, in Mobile, Alabama. Cafritz attended George Washington University, where she earned her B.A. degree in political science and completed her J.D. degree. Cafritz became involved with education and the arts when, as a law student, she founded the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Initially a summer arts workshop for minority children, the program was accepted into the District of Colombia Public Schools in 1974. From 1979 to 1987, she chaired the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and in 1993 President William J. Clinton appointed her vice chairperson of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. She worked as a programming executive for Post-Newsweek and a documentary producer for WTOP-TV, earning both Emmy and Peabody awards for her documentary work. In 2000, Cafritz was elected president of the D.C. Board of Education.
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