Reminiscences of Dorothy I. Height, 1976.

Biographical Note

Social worker

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education, Virginia, New York, N.Y.; affiliation with National Council of Negro Women, 1937-1974; career with Young Women's Christian Association, interracial education, leadership training, 1938- ; Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s; work on advisory committee on women in the Services, 1952-1955; visiting professor, Delhi School of Social Work, India, 1952; civil rights work: school desegregation, War on Poverty, Head Start, voter registration in the South; women's organizations; travels in Latin America; International Women's Year Conference, 1975; impressions of Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune

Subjects

• African Americans--Civil rights.
• African Americans--Education.
• African American women executives--Interviews.
• Barnes, Betty, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Cowan, Paula, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010.
• Interviews.
• National Council of Negro Women.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Social workers--Interviews.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• Women's rights.
• Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.

Access Conditions

Copyright by narrator and Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College