LC control no. | n 96034215 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Boykin, Keith |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 1965-08-28 |
Place of birth | Saint Louis (Mo.) |
Affiliation | National Black Justice Coalition National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum (U.S.) Dartmouth College American University (Washington, D.C.) Harvard Law School |
Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers Authors College teachers |
Found in | One more river to cross, c1996: CIP t.p. (Keith Boykin) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Keith Boykin; civil rights activist, gay rights activist, author, educator; born August 28, 1965 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States; graduated with a degree in Government from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (1987); worked in Boston on the Michael Dukakis presidential campaign; graduated from Harvard Law School (1992); served as general editor of the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review; worked on Bill Clinton's presidential campaign; helped organize a historic meeting between President Clinton and gay and lesbian community leaders (April 1993); appointed executive director of the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum in Los Angeles, California (1995 -1998), adjunct professor of political science at American University in Washington, D.C. (1999-2001); founded the National Black Justice Coalition, an antiracism and anti-homophobia advocacy group for black gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered men and women and their supporters) |
Associated language | eng |