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Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an African-American civil rights and women's rights activist. [ 1 ] She focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness. [ 2 ] Height is credited as the first leader in the civil rights movement to recognize inequality for women ...
Delta Sigma Theta's national president Dorothy Height was an organizer of the march and was the sole woman to have been seated on the speakers' platform. [109] Delta members were also present at the march in large numbers. The Golden Anniversary Luncheon was held January 12, 1963.
Below is a list of Delta Sigma Theta (ΔΣΘ) members, commonly referred to as Deltas. The sorority was founded on January 13, 1913, at Howard University [ 1] and was first incorporated in Washington, D.C., on February 9, 1913. [ 2] Its graduate chapters are named according to geographic location and "Alumnae" annexed to the service area's name.
Dorothy Height was re-elected in "harmony move". Hosted by New York Alumnae chapter. [1] [2] [9] [11] [12] 24 th: Detroit Michigan: December 26, 1956 – December 30, 1956: Theme: "Windows on the World." Revision of nomenclature. Graduate chapters thereafter to be known as alumnae chapters. The member-at-large category is proposed.
Computer pioneer who helped calculate the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. Dorothy Vaughan. Wilberforce. The first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at NASA. Mary Jackson. Hampton University. NASA 's first black female engineer. Lilian Lewis. Alpha.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. ( ΑΚΑ) is the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority. [ 3] The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of sixteen students led by Ethel Hedgemon Lyle. Forming a sorority broke barriers for African American ...
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National Black Family Reunion. The Black Family Reunion Celebration (also written about as the National Black Family Reunion and, most recently, The Midwest Regional Black Family Reunion Celebration) is a two- to three-day cultural event, held annually the third weekend of August, to "reinforce the historic strengths and traditional values of ...