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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: DOROTHY HEIGHTadmin2020-02-10T15:16:06-05:00

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.

Photo 1. Presidential Medal of Freedom Award Ceremony, August 8, 1994. Photo 2.  Congressional Gold Medal, awarded March 23, 2004.

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

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