The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Dorothy Height

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Dorothy Height

9/13/2003

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2003.245

Nonprofit chief executive and social activist Dorothy Height (1912 - 2010 ) was the president of National Council of Negro Women for over forty years. Leaders of the United States regularly took her counsel, including First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and President Lyndon B. Johnson. Height was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 9/13/2003, in Washington, D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 21m 23s

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Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010

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Social worker. From the description of Reminiscences of Dorothy I. Height : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309740864 Civil rights activist; YWCA worker From the description of Dorothy Irene Height papers, 1937-2005 (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 463485177 Dorothy Irene Height was born March 24, 1912 in Richmond, Virginia to Fannie Burroughs and James Height. Both of Height's paren...