THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Dorothy Height
March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010
“She was a feminist and a major spokesperson for the rights of women long before there was a women’s movement.” – Congressman John Lewis
National Council of Negro Women. Co-Founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus. United Christian Youth Movement. Harlem Christian Youth Council. New York City Department of Welfare. YWCA; Emma Ransom House in Harlem, Phyllis Wheatley YWCA in Washington, D.C. YWCA’s Center for Racial Justice. Council for United Civil Rights Leadership. President’s Commission on the Status of Women.
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Photo 1. Presidential Medal of Freedom Award Ceremony, August 8, 1994. Photo 2. Congressional Gold Medal, awarded March 23, 2004.
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More About Dorothy:
- Dorothy Height honored with Forever Stamp
- Dorothy Height’s Obituary on NPR
- Celebration of Life Service for Dorothy Height on C-SPAN
- Explorations in Black Leadership – University of Virginia, interview series
- Library of Congress – Dorothy Height collection
- Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- National Center for Civil and Human Rights
- The History Makers
- Dorothy Height on C-SPAN
- Interview on NPR, November 2008
- The Belmont Oral History Project – June 2004
- The Wednesdays in Mississippi: Civil Rights as Women’s Work – University of Houston, Oral History Interview by Holly Shulman, January 2003
- National Visionary Project
- “Dorothy Height.” National Women’s History Museum, 2017
- Speech delivered at the first Scholarly Conference on Black Women – Washington, D.C. – November 13, 1979 American Radio Works
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – page 207