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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 ]
Dorothy Height served as the NCNW's fourth president from 1957 to 1997, helping women feel empowered until the day she died. She marched with Martin Luther King at the civil rights marches and was invited to President Obama's inauguration. President Obama also spoke at her funeral along with many other women and men who cared deeply for her.
In the spring of 1964 Dorothy I. Height, President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), working with NCNW volunteer Polly Spiegel Cowan, came up with the idea of sending weekly teams of northern women to Mississippi. [1] The teams were interracial and interfaith. They would leave for Mississippi on a Tuesday and return on a Thursday.
Dorothy Height. Image: Dorothy Height (Express Newspapers / Getty Images) Height was an elder of King, and she influenced him as such. She met King when he was 15 years old, according to her ...
Whitney Moore Young Jr. (July 31, 1921 – March 11, 1971) was an American civil rights leader. Trained as a social worker, he spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively worked for equitable access to socioeconomic opportunity for the ...
Big Six (activists) The Big Six — Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young —were the leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in ...
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.
95000526 [ 1] Added to NRHP. April 27, 1995 [ 2] The Central National Bank, also known as the Dorothy I. Height Building, or Apex Building, is the national headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women. It is located at 633 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Penn Quarter neighborhood.