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Boykin, Keith

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Personal name headingBoykin, Keith
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1965-08-28
Place of birthSaint Louis (Mo.)
AffiliationNational Black Justice Coalition National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum (U.S.) Dartmouth College American University (Washington, D.C.) Harvard Law School
Profession or occupationCivil rights workers Authors College teachers
Found inOne 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 languageeng