Joe Louis Clark
Male, Person
1938 –
Who is Joe Louis Clark?
Joe Louis Clark is the former principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, one of New Jersey's toughest inner city schools. He is also the subject of the 1989 film Lean on Me, starring Morgan Freeman. Clark gained public attention in the 1980s for his unconventional and controversial disciplinary measures. He also partly inspired Denzel Washington's character in the film Hard Lessons about contemporary Los Angeles high school principal George McKenna.
Clark is also the father of the Olympic track athletes Joetta Clark Diggs and Hazel Clark Riley, and the father-in-law of Olympic track athlete Jearl Miles Clark.
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- Born
- May 7, 1938
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Rutgers University
- Lived in
- New Jersey
- Paterson
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on July 23, 2013
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