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Biography

Harold A. McDougall is Professor of Law at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He was a civil rights organizer and voter registrant in his early years and served the NAACP from 1994 to 1997, as Executive Vice President of a local branch, as Washington Bureau Director and as Senior Policy Consultant. He served on the National Governing Board of Common Cause from 1997 to 2004, and presently serves on the Board of Directors of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Scholars Program) and the Board of Trustees of the Paul J. Aicher Foundation (Study Circles Resource Center). He has consulted for the Kellogg, Kettering, and Village Foundations, and the Montgomery County, MD, County Executive’s Office.

Professor McDougall specializes in the areas of urban social and economic development, civil rights, and the workings of state, local, and federal government. He has written numerous articles, as well as a book, BLACK BALTIMORE: A NEW THEORY OF COMMUNITY (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993) which proposes a new approach to the renovation and revitalization of community civic culture.

Professor McDougall’s work on civic culture presently takes two forms, one international, and one domestic. Since a 1999 Fulbright Fellowship to the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, he has focused on sustainable development and citizen engagement in the developing world, teaching and writing in this area. In 2006, he taught a course on sustainable development to students at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, pursuant to Howard Law School’s South Africa Program.

Locally, he has founded the “Invisible College” to teach “public citizenship” to middle and high school students. The program is going forward with a Saturday school in civil rights law and history for disadvantaged middle- and high-school students, pursuant to a Montgomery County Community Services Grant. Prof. McDougall is expanding the school’s offerings to include a course for high school juniors on human rights and sustainable development, keyed to the students’ world studies curriculum. Given unlimited resources, Prof. McDougall would expand the Saturday school to several different locations in the state of Maryland, and also expand course offerings to include a curriculum or adults interested in civic participation and action in the area of civil rights and sustainable development.

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updated February 25, 2008