Peggy Cooper Cafritz

Peggy Cooper Cafritz (born Pearl Alice Cooper; April 7, 1947 – February 18, 2018) was an American art collector, educator, civil rights activist, philanthropist and socialite. She was born in Mobile, Alabama, and studied at Georgia Washington University.

In 1968, she organized a black arts festival and had inner-city students in to the festival. This program became the magnet school Duke Ellington School of the Arts, which she and Malone founded in 1974 and which they modeled after New York City's High School of Performing Arts.

Cafritz died of complications from pneumonia in Washington, D.C. on February 18, 2018 at the age of 70.

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