
"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
Themes & Content
- Central Theme Categories
- Biography/Autobiography
- Cross Group
- Content
- Activism/Social Justice Movements
- Inequalities
- Race-Related
- School/Extracurricular Activities
- Settings
- Americas
- Ethnicity
- Irish
- Kenyan
- Multiethnic
- Unspecified
- Gender Representation
- Boys/Men
- Girls/Women
- Sexual Orientation / Relationship Representation
- Heterosexual
- Race / Culture
- Bi/Multiracial/Mixed Race
- Black/African/African American
- White/European American/Caucasian
- Religion
- Christian
- Character Prominence
- Dominant Main
- Secondary