
Private Documentary Film Screening: The Best Mayor We Never Elected with Larry DiCara
Thu, May 30
|Baker Botts LLP
Co-hosted with the Harvard Law School Association of DC


Time & Location
May 30, 2024, 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Baker Botts LLP, 700 K St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About the event
For access to the venue, please RSVP by May 29, 2024.
In partnership with the HLSA-DC, please join us for a documentary screening and Q&A program, which dives into Boston local politics and its modern history, including a deeper discussion of the Boston school busing and the school desegregation crises.
We will screen the documentary film, The Best Mayor We Never Elected, scheduled to compete at select film festivals. The film traces the personal life story and political career of Larry DiCara, a Harvard College and Harvard Kennedy School graduate. Larry was the youngest elected city councilor on the Boston city council and served as its President. His political career in the 1970s overlapped with the federal order mandating a correction to the legal segregation violations in the Boston school system which was issued 50 years ago in 1974. Larry ran unsuccessfully for Mayor in Boston but years later the…