Oral history interview with Dorothy I. Height, 1976
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- Name
- Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010 (Interviewee)
- Cowan, Paula (Interviewer)
- Barnes, Betty (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Dorothy I. Height, 1976
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Dorothy I. Height, 1976
- Abstract
- 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 dese gregation, 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
- Collection Name
- Black women oral history project
- Subjects
- Social workers; African American women executives; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Civil rights; Women's rights; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010; National Council of Negro Women; Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1976
- Note (Biographical)
- Social worker
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Paula Cowan, Betty Barnes.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 6864721
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-3yr2-js06
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.