Robert Boehm (1914December 26, 2006) was an American political activist. Boehm was a 1935 graduate of
Dartmouth College
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and a 1939 graduate of
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
Law School.
The son of an attorney, he married his father's secretary, Frances Rozran; Frances Boehm died on February 14, 2006. Boehm committed himself to a lifetime of social activism, including co-establishing, with
Maurice Paprin, the Fund for New Priorities in America, as well as serving as the chairman of the board for the
Center for Constitutional Rights
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR; formerly Law Center for Constitutional Rights) is an American progressive non-profit legal advocacy organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1966 by lawyers William Kunstler, Arthur Kin ...
, founded in 1966. A supporter of civil rights, an opponent of the
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam w ...
, and, late in life, a critic of the US detainee camp at
Guantanamo Bay after 2001, Boehm nonetheless distanced himself from leftists he felt were too extreme.
References
External links
New York Times obituaryCenter for Constitutional Rights homepage
1914 births
2006 deaths
Dartmouth College alumni
Columbia Law School alumni
American civil rights activists
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