Women / Persons ~ P15764
Dorothy Irene Height
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Social Networks and Archival ContextAlternate Names:
- Dorothy Height
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 24 March 1912 - 20 April 2010
Types:
- Activist
- Activist, Women's Rights
- African American
- American (US)
- Member of committee or club
- Reformer, education
- Reformer, political
- Social worker
Note: President of National Council of Negro Women, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, served on several committees: African American Affairs for the Secretary of State, President's Committees on the Status of Women and the Employment of the Handicapped, and the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority at Columbia University.