Open wide the freedom gates : a memoir

Resource Information

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Label

Open wide the freedom gates : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Dorothy Height ; with a foreword by Maya Angelou

Creator

• trueHeight, Dorothy I., (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010

Subject

• trueAfrican American women civil rights workers -- Biography
• African Americans -- Civil rights
• trueAfrican Americans -- Civil rights | History -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• trueAfrican Americans -- Social conditions -- 1964-1975
• trueAfrican Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
• Biography
• Bürgerrechtsbewegung
• Civil rights workers
• trueCivil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
• Height, Dorothy I
• African American women civil rights workers
• Height, Dorothy I., (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010
• History
• National Council of Negro Women
• National Council of Negro Women -- Biography
• Since 1900
• USA
• United States
• Weibliche Schwarze
• Height, Dorothy I., (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010

Genre

• trueHistory
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

[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

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 323/.092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E185.97.H444

LC item number

A3 2003

Literary form

non fiction