Research Catalog

Title

Open wide the freedom gates : a memoir / Dorothy Height ; with a foreword by Maya Angelou.

Author

Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010

Publication

New York : PublicAffairs, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Angelou, Maya

Description

xi, 322 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

[The author] marched at major civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every significant victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as the sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, and as someone whose personal ambition was always secondary to her passion for her cause, she has received little mainstream recognition ... In [this] memoir, [she] reflects on a life of service and leadership.--Jacket.

Subjects

• Since 1900
• History
• Biographies
• African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
• African Americans > Social conditions > 1964-1975
• African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century
• Civil rights workers > United States > Biography
• African American women civil rights workers > Biography
• National Council of Negro Women Biography
• Height, Dorothy I (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A "little old lady" -- Keeping the faith -- Coming of age in Harlem -- "Me culled too" -- Building a new world -- Turning points -- Wartime Washington -- Step by step -- The land of the free -- "Women are the shock absorbers" -- Behind the "cotton curtain" -- Mississippi, crucible of change -- Living up to our promise -- Citizen of the world -- Making common cause -- A place in the sisterhood -- Building a legacy -- Home at last -- A family of friends -- "Temples still undone."

ISBN

1586481576

LCCN

^^2003046581

OCLC

• 51969130
• SCSB-9989663

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library