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has everyone seen the google doodle for today? honouring dorothy irene height, civil rights activist (Original Post)
niyad
Mar 2014
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Sissyk
(12,665 posts)1. I saw it, niyad!
Very nice.
libodem
(19,288 posts)2. That was lovely
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,719 posts)3. I sure did see it, and I loved it!
In fact, I have the Google page as my home page just so I will always see what they're up to.
The work they present is often imaginative and thought-provoking.
NBachers
(17,146 posts)4. Thanks for posting this- it's a really well-done Google Doodle.
William769
(55,148 posts)5. Yes.
niyad
(113,582 posts)7. thank you--had not been online most of the day, so did not see this.
William769
(55,148 posts)8. No problem. Just wanted to give BTA credit also.
niyad
(113,582 posts)9. tis only right!!
malaise
(269,186 posts)6. Lovely
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kwassa
(23,340 posts)10. Dorothy Height was a very important person in the Washington, DC area.
An icon of the civil rights movement.
Height sat on the stage behind Martin Luther King Jr. as he gave his famous I Have a Dream speech. She co-founded the National Womens Political Caucus with Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan. She has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, the two highest honors awarded to an American civillian. She also stood on as Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009, and Obama called her the godmother of the civil rights movement after her death in 2010.
Height made major contributions to both the civil rights movement and the womens liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s, but was often marginalized in each movement because of her race and gender. She helped organize Dr. Kings March on Washington, yet was not asked to speak along with the male civil rights leaders. She was accepted to Barnard College in 1929, but was not able to enroll because she was black. She went to New York University instead, where she earned a bachelors degree in education and a masters in psychology.
After graduation she began to work with the YWCA, where she fought to to expose the exploitation of black women working as domestic day laborers in what were commonly known as the slave markets. The women would gather on street corners in Brooklyn and the Bronx and would be hired for 15 cents an hour by white suburban housewives who were cruising for cheap labor. Heights crusade brought public attention to the slave markets, and drove them underground (although they later re-emerged.) She also oversaw the desegregation of the YWCA, and founded the Ys center for Racial Justice.
She organized many programs to strengthen racial ties, including Wednesdays in Mississippi, a program that flew interracial groups of Northern women to meet with black and white women in Mississippi, and Black Family Reunions, which were large, celebratory gatherings dedicated to celebrating the culture and traditions of the black community.
http://time.com/35304/dorothy-height-google-doogle/
niyad
(113,582 posts)11. thank you for the additional information on this remarkable woman.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)12. I thought it was great
my students loved it as well.