Reminiscences of Dorothy I. Height, 1976 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Childhood and education, Virginia, New York, N.Y.; affiliation with National Council of Negro Women, 1937-1974; career with Young Women's Christian Association, interracial education, leadership training, 1938- ; Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s; work on advisory committee on women in the Services, 1952-1955; visiting professor, Delhi School of Social Work, India, 1952; civil rights work: school desegregation, War on Poverty, Head Start, voter registration in the South; women's organizations; travels in Latin America; International Women's Year Conference, 1975; impressions of Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune