description | Community leader Peggy Cooper Cafritz (1947 - 2018 ) was president of the Washington, D.C. Board of Education, and an award-winning documentary producer. While attending law school in Washington, D.C., Cafritz founded the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, which was initially a summer arts workshop for minority children, but was later accepted into the public school system in 1974. Cafritz was interviewed by The HistoryMakers® on June 26, 2001 and June 26, 2012, in Washington, District of Columbia. This collection is comprised of the original video footage of the interview. |