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Apr 2, 2014 · There, she attended racially integrated schools. In high school, Height showed great talent as an orator. She also became socially and politically active, participating in anti-lynching campaigns.
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Height was a talented student and exemplary orator. She graduated from high school in 1929 and won a national public speaking contest that earned her a four-year scholarship to college. Height applied to Barnard College in New York but was turned away because the school had reached its quota of two black students per year.
In 1929, she was admitted to Barnard College but was not allowed to attend because the school did not admit African Americans. Instead, Height went on to graduate from New York University where she received a bachelor’s in education and master’s in psychology.
Dorothy Height was an American civil rights and women’s rights activist, a widely respected and influential leader of organizations focused primarily on improving the circumstances of and opportunities for African American women. Reared in Rankin, Pa., Height graduated in 1933 from New York.
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Aug 15, 2019 · The family moved to Pennsylvania, where Dorothy attended integrated schools. In high school, Height was noted for her speaking skills. She even earned a college scholarship after winning a national oratory competition.
- Jone Johnson Lewis
Sep 28, 2022 · Dorothy I. Height was a model Black intellectual-activist. She challenged racism and sexism at an early age, setting the stage for a lifetime of activism. In 1937 she began working at the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in Harlem, New York, where she worked for over forty years.
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She would earn a bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s in psychology from that school. Height became a caseworker with New York City’s Welfare Department and an officer of the Harlem Christian Youth Council under Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church.
