Dorothy Height Women's Activist

Dorothy Height
Civil Rights and Women's Activist

Activist, author, and leader, are words that describe Dorothy Height. Many people know that Dorothy Height was a fighter against discrimination, but she was so much more. As a well known Civil rights and Women's Rights Activist, Dorothy Height, showed Americans that they should be not be discriminated or segregated by their race or gender. She left a lasting legacy that hard work is never a waste. The early life of Dorothy Height was very difficult. Her childhood was a struggle to her. She loved school and almost had a perfect attendance but her intense asthma held her back. (Height, pg 9) She was taught by her mother to evaluate herself on anything she did at school, because

When she started her adult life work that's where she started to act. She spent the position with the New York City welfare department for two years. ¨Dorothy traveled extensively serving as a visiting professor at a University in India with the Black Womens of South Africa.¨ This quotes shows how she wanted to go anywhere she could to help young girls. She was inspired by Mary Bethune because she understood the need for collective power for black women. Her childhood was a struggle but when she got to her adulthood work she became successful.
Dorothy Heights achievements were very important to her. Her empirical accomplishments impacted who she was. ¨At its 1980 commencement ceremonies, Barnard College awarded Height its highest honor ‘Barnard Medal of Distinction’.¨ This quote was used to show her success in fighting for equality. She wrote a book about her life and it's called ¨Open Wide The Freedom Gates.¨ (fox, online source) The march on Washington was an eye- opening experience for

She introduced ¨Self Help¨ for teenagers to not tobe participants in drugs or bullying. (encyclopedia.com) ¨Leader addressing the rights of both women and African Americans as the president of negro women¨. She thrived to get the ¨slave markets¨ taken down and stopped. Dorothy Height faced many problems. Her political problems during the movement only made her want equality more. ¨Ms. Height should have been the seventh of the ´Big Six¨. This was said to prove that Height wasn't being treated equally. (online source) She was not asked to speak with Martin Luther King Jr. and other male speakers, although she was asked to walk with them. She was cropped off of many pictures during the march on Washington. Her life was based on what color she was. These racial problems was what she needed to stop. ¨Height was accepted to Barnard college in 1929, but was not able to attend because she was Negro¨. (online magazine) When she was young, her and her club went down to the ´Çhatham Street YWCA´ in downtown Pittsburgh to learn how to swim. But was rejected because of her