She Persisted: Dorothy Height

2023by Kelly Starling Lyons, Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint

"Growing up as a Black girl in the 1920s and 1930s, Dorothy Height was denied access to a local swimming pool as well as admission to Barnard College because of her race. But she persisted in pushing for change, and became a seminal figure in both the civil rights and women's rights movements. She went on to be awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom."-- publisher

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