Civil rights leader Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height

Living place: Richmond

Birthday: 24-3-1912

Population of US 1912: 95,335,000

Global rank: #45724

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Civil rights leader Dorothy Height profile

Who is Civil rights leader Dorothy Height?
Civil rights activist and women's rights cause who served for 40 years as president of the National Council of Black Women.
She advised President Dwight D. Eisenhower to end school segregation, and then she encouraged President Lyndon B. Johnson to consider African-American women for government posts.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She was admitted to Barnard College in 1929, but she was not allowed to put her name on the books, as the university had a policy of only allowing admission to two African-American students per year. Instead, she attended New York University, Columbia University, and the New York School of Social Work.

Family life info

She was born to Fannie Burroughs and James Height in Richmond, Virginia, and she moved to Rankin, Pennsylvania as a child.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Civil rights leader Dorothy Height?
She was inducted with the Congressional Gold Medal by President George W. Bush in 2004.

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When was Civil rights leader Dorothy Height born?
Dorothy Height was born in 24-3-1912, death year is , at the age of 112.
Where is Civil rights leader Dorothy Height's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Dorothy Height was born in Richmond, Virginia- United States. is a Civil rights leader, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Dorothy Height's global rank is 45724 and whose rank is 78 in list of famous Civil rights leader. Population of US in 1912 is about 95,335,000 persons.
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Events in 1912 and 24-3

Events in US in the birth year of Dorothy Height

  • New Mexico and Arizona are admitted as states No. 47 and 48.
  • Woodrow Wilson is elected president.
  • William Randolph Hearst begins to acquire his media empire that will include 18 newspapers and nine magazines within two decades.
  • Girl Scouts of America founded by Juliette Gordon Low.

Birthday Dorothy Height (24-3) in history

  • Day 24-3 year 1603: Queen Elizabeth passed away at 69 at Richmond Palace after ruling England for more than 40 years. She is buried at Westminster Abbey, London, UK
  • Day 24-3 year 1882: Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus.
  • Day 24-3 year 1949: Laurence Olivier's Hamlet became the first British film to win an Oscar.
  • Day 24-3 year 1958: Rock 'n' roll star Elvis Presley joined the U.S. army for two years.
  • Day 24-3 year 1989: In one of worst oil spills in recent history, the tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground and released 240,000 barrels of oil into Prince William Sound.
  • Day 24-3 year 1999: NATO begins launching air strikes in an attempt to force Serbia to cease hostilities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
  • Day 24-3 year 2002: Halle Berry became the first African-American actress to win a best actress Oscar and Denzel Washington became the second African-American actor to get the best actor award.
  • Day 24-3 year 2004: The notorious Bird family's more than half-century stronghold on the nation of Antigua and Barbuda came to an end when Baldwin Spencer won the post of prime minister in the general election.
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