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Author:

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

Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

PublicAffairs,

Copyright Date:

2005?, c2003

Description:

xi, 322 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

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

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: c2003. Includes index.

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:

9781586482862
1586482866

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61118200

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

BKPC251 -- Woodward Public Library (Woodward)