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02750cam a2200505 a 4500 001 A4DC084A2B0311DE8B76D107A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20240315010227 008 030325s2003 nyua 001 0aeng 010 $a 2003046581 020 $a 9781586481575 020 $a 1586481576 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCG $d IW9 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E185.97.H444 $b A3 2003 082 00 $a B $a B $2 21 100 1 $a Height, Dorothy I. $q (Dorothy Irene), $d 1912- 245 1 $a Open wide the freedom gates : $b a memoir / $c Dorothy Height ; with a foreword by Maya Angelou. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b PublicAffairs, $c c2003. 300 $a xi, 322 p. : $b ill. ; $c 25 cm. 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a 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." 520 $a [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. 600 10 $a Height, Dorothy I. $q (Dorothy Irene), $d 1912- 650 0 $a African American women civil rights workers $v Biography. 650 0 $a Civil rights workers $z United States $v Biography. 610 20 $a National Council of Negro Women $v Biography. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Social conditions $y 1964-1975. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Social conditions $y 1975- 941 $a 11 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724060603.0 952 $l DFPC353 $d 20240430012704.0 952 $l GKPC851 $d 20230228012923.0 952 $l MBPE423 $d 20201013045951.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180111041630.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160820054402.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160202025057.0 952 $l AGPE046 $d 20150221014619.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20111006012157.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A4DC084A2B0311DE8B76D107A8D7520A 994 $a 03 $b IW9Initiate Another SILO Locator Search