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Hace 5 días · Growing up as a Black girl in the 1920s and 1930s, Dorothy Height was denied access to a local swimming pool as well as admission to Barnard College because of her race. But she persisted in pushing for change, and became a seminal figure in both the civil rights and women's rights movements.
Hace 3 días · Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women, expressed that the best way black women could help themselves was to help their men gain equality.
Hace 1 día · Get to know the narrative painter, educator, and Dorothy Height Distinguished Alumni Award winner. Acclaimed artist Philemona Williamson (MFA ‘79) has developed a long career as a narrative painter, exploring the tenuous bridge between adolescence and adulthood, as well as an arts educator for audiences of all kinds.
Hace 4 días · In 1958, Height became president of the National Council of Negro Women, a position she held for more than 40 years. In that role she fought tirelessly for desegregation, affordable housing ...
Hace 1 día · 10 May, 2024By Thomas Johnson. The excavation of 88km of underground tunnels needed for the High Speed 2 (HS2) route from London to Birmingham is now more than halfway completed. In total, high-speed trains will travel through 44km of twin-bore tunnels, nearly 20% of the full 225km route. HS2’s fleet of tunnel boring machines (TBMs) is ...
Hace 1 día · The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded by the president of the United States "for especially meritorious contribution to (1) the security or national interests of the United States, or (2) world peace, or (3) cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."
Hace 3 días · One will be right across the street from Dorothy Height Elementary School. "I don't know what the risks of having a ventilation tunnel by anything is, so yeah we need to learn about that," says Patrick Slavin. Patrick Slavin lives in Bolton Hill; he says this was the first meeting he heard about from Amtrak.
