Editing Claude Allen (section)

==Early life==
Allen, a native of [[Philadelphia]], grew up in a two-bedroom apartment in a [[working-class]] section of northwest [[Washington, D.C.]] He attended [[Archbishop Carroll High School (Washington, D.C.)|Archbishop Carroll High School]], a [[Roman Catholic]] school. His mother worked part-time at a Catholic school; his father worked for a plumbing supply business. In a television interview, Allen said "Probably the vast majority of the kids who grew up in our neighborhood were either strung out on drugs or in jail or dead." Claude attended Jesse O. Sanderson High School in Raleigh, North Carolina from 1975 to 1978 where he participated in student government and ran track.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}} <!-- unable to verify  -->

Allen has a twin brother named Floyd,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/politics/for-bushs-exaide-quick-fall-after-long-climb.html|title=For Bush's Ex-Aide, Quick Fall After Long Climb|first1=Ian|last1=Urbina|first2=David D.|last2=Kirkpatrick|work=The New York Times |date=March 14, 2006|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5261738|title=Was it His Evil Twin?|newspaper=NPR|date=March 14, 2006}}</ref> who played football and was inducted into the Sanderson Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20151005164555/http://www.sandersonathletics.org/Class_of_2011%20HOF%20Induction%20Ceremony.pdf "Sanderson Athletics Hall of Fame Charter Class of 2011 Induction Celebration"]. October 2, 2011. Sanders Athletics. Retrieved April 10, 2018.</ref> In 1982, Allen graduated from the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]]<ref name="IanUrbina">{{cite news |last1=Urbina |first1=Ian |last2=Kirkpatrick |first2=David D. |title=For Bush's Ex-Aide, Quick Fall After Long Climb |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/politics/for-bushs-exaide-quick-fall-after-long-climb.html |accessdate=July 24, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=March 14, 2006}}</ref>