A WEB SERIES
DOROTHY HEIGHT
EDUCATOR &
CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST
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"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.”
Born
Mar. 24
1912
Died
Apr. 20
2010
Portrayed By
Odessa
Henry
Episode
12
An American educator, civil rights and women’s rights activist, Dorothy Height spent her life advocating for racial and gender equality and was a pioneer for social justice. Height was a consultant to the Secretary of State, the President’s Committee on the Employment of the Handicapped and the President’s Committee on the Status of Women. Despite extensively planning the March on Washington, she was not invited to speak over her male counterparts. S later stated that the men of the Civil Rights Movement "were happy to include women in the human family, but there was no question as to who headed the household." Height was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 and received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.
Height chatting with various Civil Rights leaders after a meeting in New York
Dorothy Height on women in the Civil Rights Movement
Height presenting the Mary McLeod Bethune Human Rights Award to Eleanor Roosevelt
Height comparing present day politics to the Civil Rights Movement
Height at the First National Women's Speak Out Seminar in New York City
Dorothy Height speaking at the 1997 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner in Washington, DC.