About Dorothy Height
Dorothy Irene Height was an African-American civil rights and women's rights activist. She focused on the issues of Foundational Black American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness. Height is credited as the first leader in the civil rights movement to recognize inequality for women and Foundational Black Americans as problems that should be considered as a whole. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years. Height's role in the "Big Six" civil rights movement was frequently ignored by the press due to sexism. In 1974, she was named to the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, which published the Belmont Report, a bioethics report in response to the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
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Awards & Honors
honorary doctorate from Princeton University
honorary doctor of the Howard University
lifetime achievement award
Phoenix Award
honorary degree from Spelman College
Ladies' Home Journal Women of the Year
Presidential Medal of Freedom
honorary degree
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Congressional Gold Medal
Presidential Citizens Medal
National Women's Hall of Fame
Spingarn Medal
Heinz Award
International Civil Rights Walk of Fame
Jefferson Awards for Public Service
honorary doctorate
Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Want
Candace Award
honorary doctor of Harvard University
