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Dorothy Irene Height ( 24 mars 1912 – 20 avril 2010) est une militante afro-américaine. Présidente du National Council of Negro Women (Conseil national des femmes noires) de 1957 à 1998, elle a reçu la médaille présidentielle de la Liberté en 1994 et la médaille d'or du Congrès en 2004.
7 de oct. de 2021 · Dorothy Height died on April 10, 2010, at the age of 98. President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy at her funeral, and his words best summarized her contributions to the civil rights movement: “Dorothy Height was a drum major for justice.
Born in Richmond, Virginia March 24, 1912, Dorothy Irene Height became for many, an example of a life of service. In high school, she began her activism, participating in anti-lynching campaigns of the 1920s. After attending New York University and Columbia University, Height became a social workers and transformed that career into one as an ...
28 de sept. de 2022 · Dorothy I. Height was a model Black intellectual-activist. She challenged racism and sexism at an early age, setting the stage for a lifetime of activism. In 1937 she began working at the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in Harlem, New York, where she worked for over forty years. Working with the YWCA, Height met First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Mary McLeod
30 de abr. de 2010 · She died last week to the age of ninety-eight. Dorothy Height served as president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, where she fought for equal rights for both African ...
20 de abr. de 2010 · Legendary civil rights leader Dorothy Height died Tuesday at the age of 98. Melissa Block talks to Alexis Herman, the first African-American to lead the Department of Labor, about Height's impact ...
Dr. Dorothy Irene Height. Activist. Born March 24, 1912 in Richmond, VA, Died April 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. She hardly ever got her name in the paper. That honor was reserved for people like the so-called “Big Six” of the Civil Rights movement – Asa Philip Randolph, John Lewis, Roy Wilkins, James Forman, Whitney Young and Martin ...
