Title

Open wide the freedom gates : a memoir

Description

[The author] marched at major civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every significant victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as the sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, and as someone whose personal ambition was always secondary to her passion for her cause, she has received little mainstream recognition ... In [this] memoir, [she] reflects on a life of service and leadership.--Jacket.

Identifier

1119013

1586481576

Creator

Height, Dorothy I

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2003

Program air date: August 3, 2003.

Publisher

PublicAffairs

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Front and back end papers and front fly leaf contain notes on Height's education, life, career and role in Civil and Equal Rights reform, Harlem in the 1930s, a 1941 accident, and a list of African American leaders/activists. Underlinings/notes: race, education, life in Harlem, experiences in Europe, YWCA, Bronx Slave Market, racism, sexism, National Council of Negro Women.

Subject

"Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010."

"National Council of Negro Women--Biography."

"African American women civil rights workers--Biography."

"Civil rights workers--United States--Biography."

"African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century."

"African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975."

"African Americans--Social conditions--1975-"

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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