Interview: Roper, Richard, 1991
Item
- Resource class
- Interview
- Title
- Interview: Roper, Richard, 1991
- Type
- Interview
- Interviewee
- Roper, Richard
- Birth Year
- 1945
- Birth Place
- DeLand, Florida
- Rutgers Graduating Class
- 1968
- Interviewer
- Cohen, Gilbert
- Location Created
- Maplewood, New Jersey
- Date Created
- 30 October 1991
- Abstract
- Richard Roper graduated from Rutgers-Newark with a bachelor's degree in economics and completed a master's in public affairs at Princeton University. During his years at Rutgers-Newark, he served first as the president of the NAACP chapter, and then as co-founder and president of the Black Organization of Students (BOS), which was organized out of the time of social unrest following the Newark Riots and an era of civil rights struggle. After college Roper held a number of positions in Newark and federal government. He was a legislative aide and lobbyist for Newark's first African-American mayor, Kenneth Gibson, served as director of the Office of Newark Studies, was appointed special assistant to the secretary of commerce, Juanita Kreps under the Carter Administration, and served for 12 years as assistant dean at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
- Source Project Description
- This interview is part of an oral history project that Rutgers University librarian Gil Cohen conducted in the early 1990s. The project documented the city of Newark and Rutgers University-Newark as they were in the 1960s and 1970s. The audio recordings and transcripts for this collection have been fully digitized by Rutgers University Libraries.
- Transcript
- https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T36H4FBH
- Repository
- Rutgers University Archives, a division of Special Collections and University Archives, located at Alexander Library, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Rights
- Rutgers University owns the copyright in this work. You may make use of this resource, with proper attribution, for noncommercial educational, scholarly, or research purposes only. Please contact Rutgers University Libraries to obtain permission for other uses.
- Related Resource
- Richard Roper (Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance Hall of Fame)
- Richard W. Roper, Public Policy Executive, Civic Leader Inducted to Rutgers Board of Governors (Rutgers Today, 2013-10-02)
- Richard Roper biography (The HistoryMakers)
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Interview: Roper, Richard, 2019
- Subject
- Rutgers University-Newark
- Rutgers Alumni
- NAACP
- Black Organization of Students (BOS)
- Public Affairs and Administration
- Newark Area Planning Association (NAPA)
- Conklin Hall takeover
- Activism and Movements
- Identifier
- SCUA-RNOH-Roper
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