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

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1912 - 2010

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Biographical files of the Black Women Oral History Project, ca.1879-2011

Collection Identifier: MC 916
Overview:

Articles, resumes, ephemera, and photographs providing additional biographical information about women interviewed for the Schlesinger Library's Black Women Oral History Project. Materials relate to family background, childhood, education, careers, and professional and voluntary accomplishments.

Interviews of the Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1981

Collection Identifier: OH-31: T-32
Overview:

The Black Women Oral History Project collection consists of audiotapes and transcripts of 72 oral histories.

Papers of Irene Davall, 1971-1987

Collection Identifier: MC 585
Overview:

The papers of Irene Davall, feminist writer, lecturer, and political activist.

Papers of Wilma Scott Heide, 1968-1985

Collection Identifier: MC 495
Overview:

Papers of Wilma Scott Heide, sociologist and chair and president of the National Organization for Women.

Papers of Dorothy I. Height, 1933-2012

Collection Identifier: MC 1149: T-571: DVD-153
Overview:

Awards, organizational records, biographical essays, correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia of human rights activist Dorothy I. Height.

Papers of Dorothy I. Height, 1950-2004

Collection Identifier: MC 1121
Overview: Collection includes correspondence (some regarding Dorothy Height's trip to East Africa in 1960), speeches, notes on a workshop, printed material, photographs, and color slides, mostly from her work for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the National Council of Negro Women, and the Young Women's Christian Association. The photographs document a Delta Sigma Theta event in New York City in 1951; the color slides are mostly from her travels to West Africa and India, where she was visiting professor at...

Papers of Esther Peterson, 1884-1998 (inclusive), 1929-1988 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 450
Overview:

Papers of Esther Peterson, labor, education, women's rights, and consumer affairs advocate.

Papers of Edith Spurlock Sampson, 1927-1979

Collection Identifier: MC 397
Overview:

Papers of Cook County circuit judge Edith Spurlock Sampson.

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African American women 4
African American civil rights workers 3
Civil rights--United States 3
Interviews 3
Speeches 3
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United States--Race relations 3
Women's rights--United States 3
Africa, West--Social conditions 2
African American women--Education 2
African American women--Employment 2
African American women--History 2
Audiotapes 2
Civil rights workers--United States 2
Equal rights amendments--United States 2
Feminism--United States 2
Human rights 2
Photographs 2
Women's rights 2
Women--Legal status, laws, etc. 2
Abortion--United States 1
Actresses 1
Advertising--United States 1
Affirmative action programs--Law and legislation--United States 1
African American judges--Illinois 1
African American lawyers--Illinois 1
African American political activists 1
African American social workers 1
African American women artists 1
African American women political activists 1
African American women teachers 1
African American women--Illinois 1
African American women--Interviews 1
African American women--Political activity 1
African American women--Social conditions 1
African American women--Societies and clubs 1
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century 1
African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century 1
America's town meeting of the air (Radio program) 1
Anti-racism 1
Appointment books 1
Boston (Mass.)--Social life and customs 1
Boycotts--United States 1
Breastfeeding promotion 1
Business and politics 1
Businesswomen 1
Chicago (Ill.)--Officials and employees 1
China--Social conditions 1
Civil rights 1
College teachers--United States 1
Community cookbooks 1
Consultants 1
Consumer affairs directors 1
Consumer complaints--United States 1
Consumer education 1
Consumer protection--Citizen participation 1
Consumer protection--Law and legislation 1
Consumers 1
Diplomats' spouses 1
Divorced women--United States 1
Economic development 1
Economic policy 1
Equal pay for equal work--Law and legislation--United States 1
Equal pay for equal work--United States 1
Europe--Description and travel 1
Family records 1
Feminism--International cooperation 1
Feminism--United States--States 1
Feminist consultants--United States 1
Feminist theology--United States 1
Food industry and trade 1
Food law and legislation 1
Food--Labeling 1
Greek letter societies 1
Greek letter societies--United States 1
Grocery trade 1
Household employees--United States 1
India--Social conditions 1
Infant formulas--Law and legislation 1
International Women's Year, 1975--United States 1
Japan--Social conditions 1
Judges 1
Korea--Social conditions 1
Labor attaches 1
Labor bureaus 1
Labor laws and legislation 1
Labor leaders 1
Labor movement 1
Labor unions 1
Labor unions and communism 1
Labor unions--Officials and employees 1
Lawyers 1
Lobbying--United States 1
Lobbyists 1
Manuscripts for publication 1
Married women--United States 1
Middle East--Description and travel 1
Mississippi--Social conditions 1
Mormon Church 1
Mormon women--United States 1
Mormons--Utah 1
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