Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height has more than twenty honorary degrees. In addition to the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Medal and the Citizens Medal Award, which President Ronald Reagan awarded her in 1989. She continues to serve as chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women. She lives in Washington, D.C. What I like most of all--what I have devoted my life to doing--is working with other people to get things done. I have been privileged to know a most extraordinary range of people,...See more

Dorothy Height has more than twenty honorary degrees. In addition to the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Medal and the Citizens Medal Award, which President Ronald Reagan awarded her in 1989. She continues to serve as chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women. She lives in Washington, D.C. What I like most of all--what I have devoted my life to doing--is working with other people to get things done. I have been privileged to know a most extraordinary range of people, from the legendary intellectuals and artists of the 1930s to the greatest political figures and social reformers of the twentieth century. And I have been privileged to live in extraordinary times, as well, when Americans of all kinds finally a wakened to racial, economic and social injustices that betrayed the promise of our great country. This is my story: How, building on a religious faith deeply rooted in my childhood. I was able to shape my life's work. It is also the story of all those others whose paths crossed mine--from the famous and powerful to the poor and little known--and of how sometimes, working together, we were able to change the world. Finally, it is a story of the foundation I have tried to lay to help future generations build on our successes. For all our triumphs in the battle against injustice, there is still much work to be done. See less