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Leonard P. Zakim was an American civil rights leader and the first director of the Anti-Defamation League's New England Regional Office. He was born to a Jewish family in Clifton, New Jersey, and attended Rutgers University, where he earned a degree in political science. Zakim was a leader in the civil rights movement, working to end discrimination against African Americans, Jews, and other minorities. He was a founding member of the Boston chapter of the NAACP and served as its president from 1983 to 1985. He was also a member of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Massachusetts Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In 1993, Zakim was appointed the first director of the Anti-Defamation League's New England Regional Office. He served in this role until his death in 1999. During his tenure, he worked to combat anti-Semitism, racism, and bigotry in the region. He was also a leader in interfaith dialogue and was instrumental in the creation of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston. At the time of his death, Zakim was 46 years old. He had an estimated net worth of $1 million.

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Age 46 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 17 November 1953
Birthday 17 November
Birthplace Clifton, New Jersey, United States
Date of death December 2, 1999,
Died Place Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality United States

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2003

The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, the Charles River crossing of Interstate 93 and US 1 completed in 2003 as part of the Big Dig (the Central Artery/Tunnel Project), was named in his honor.

1999

For bringing together Catholics and Jews in Boston, he was honored with The Knighthood of St. Gregory from Pope John Paul II during his November, 1999 trip to Rome. Zakim also received the Urban League's Community Service Award and the Catholic Charities Medal. He also received an honorary degree in humane letters from Brandeis University and numerous other awards for leadership in human rights.

1998

Zakim published several articles about the Middle East, Black-Jewish and Catholic-Jewish relations, anti-Semitism, violence and hate crimes. He wrote a Brandeis University publication about coalition building and Lift Up Your Voice, a book about race and religious relations released in 1998. He co-authored with Janice Ditchek Confronting Anti-Semitism: A Practical Guide.

1990

During the last years of his life, as he struggled with myeloma, he founded the Lenny Zakim Fund to fight poverty and racism in Boston. Shortly before his death, he organized a Catholic-Jewish pilgrimage to Rome with his friend Cardinal Bernard Law. There he had an audience with Pope John Paul II, prompting the New Jersey native to say: "I've had my picture taken with the Pope, Bruce Springsteen and the Dalai Lama. Now I've got to get the three of them together." Zakim also condemned the protest by gay rights and abortion rights activists outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston that disrupted an ordination of priests in 1990.

1986

In addition to his work with the ADL, Zakim was co-founder of A World of Difference Institute, an anti-bias educational project formed in Boston in 1986. The project has been adapted in 29 other cities and six counties.

1985

His work in Boston revolved around his personal relationships. "I am a firm believer that relationships count more than institutions," he said. "It's because you know someone that you start to care about their issues." In particular, his relationship with Cardinal Law was crucial. The men were friendly before Law became cardinal (Zakim traveled with the delegation to Rome when Law was elevated from archbishop). Upon returning to Boston in 1985, Law delivered his first sermon as cardinal on anti-semitism and the two men traveled to Poland together in 1986, where they visited the Auschwitz concentration camp and spoke to Catholic groups about anti-semitism.

1979

In 1979 he was hired by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as its New England Civil Rights director and in 1984 he was named New England director for the organization.

1978

Zakim was born in Clifton, New Jersey and became interested in civil rights and activism after he encountered anti-semitism as a boy. He earned his B.A. degree from American University in Washington, DC and his J.D. degree from the New England School of Law in 1978. He settled in the Boston area after law school and lived there until the end of his life. In 1978 he worked as the southeast Massachusetts field director for the reelection campaign of then Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Paid $50 a week to work on the ultimately unsuccessful campaign, this experience nevertheless formed the cornerstone of his later political involvement. "The campaign was the beginning of an association with Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, that would bring Zakim to the policy-making level of the national Democratic Party, a standing he retained after Dukakis's political career faded," the Boston Globe wrote in its obituary on Zakim.

1953

Leonard Paul "Lenny" Zakim (November 17, 1953 – December 2, 1999) was a Jewish-American religious and civil rights leader in Boston. Zakim died in 1999 after a five-year battle with bone-marrow cancer. Boston's Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge was named in his honor.