The Life and Surprising Times of Dr Dorothy Height

   



This is an amazing story of the life of a great African-American woman of distinction.  Her life story is one of staunch self-development and appreciator of the life and times of the Black populous of the times.   Having been turned down from her admittance to Barnard College in Manhatten because they had reached their two-Negro quota -- even though they had already accepted her, Dorothy managed to immediately make new plans for her young life.  She then stayed on in NYC with relatives. lived next door to  musician W. D. Handy, a blues composer, and hobnobbed with noted Black people of the Harlem Rennaissance like Langston Hughes, learned from encounters with W. E. B. DuBois and others.  Dorothy was admitted to NYC and graduated with a Masters.  She becamse an NYC Case Worker.  Living in Harlem, she met notable people from many other organizations such as Mary McCleod Bethune, Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins.   Bethune's influence was remarkable to young Dorothy at that time as Dorothy came to follow the footsteps of this distinguiwhed Black woman, Mary McCleod Betune, a Mover and Shaker of the times.  She lived a life of dedication and achievement for herself and for her people.  She worked with student church groups.  She became a non-violent activist.  Surprisingly she began her activist life spark in the tutelage of the Marcus Garvey Movement and advanced to other causes, specifically the organizational offerings of Mary McCleod Bethune who became a women of great worth to her people in her own right.  Dorothy became a student activisits under the Garvey influence,  Later she became a student leader of several youth organizations.  She lived through the Harlem riot.  She vowed to get into a position to do something more effective for her people.  She got a job at the YWCA, where she could use the drive for equality and justice she felt.  There she met Mary McCleod Bethune.  Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women.  At one meeting at the Y, both Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt came into Dorothy's life.  The rest is history that unfolds interestingly and beautifully in the video of Dorothy Height's illustrious life.  It would be of interest to you to listen and experience this significant story.