Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Dorothy I. Height, 1976
Creator: | Height, Dorothy I. 1912-2010 | Project: | Black women oral history project. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteSocial worker
Scope and ContentsChildhood 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
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by narrator and Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College
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