Open Wide the Freedom Gates
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Dorothy Height recounts her life in the struggle for civil rights and women's rights, including her decades heading the National Council of Negro Women. The 2003 memoir describes working alongside many of the major figures of the movement. Height recalls encounters with W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr., and describes the long work of organizing for equality.
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