The National Council Of Negro Women -- The Dorothy I. Height Building
by Cora Wandel
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The National Council Of Negro Women -- The Dorothy I. Height Building
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Cora Wandel
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A bronze plaque on this historic building reads:
“The National Council of Negro Women" was founded in 1935 by Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) to "harness the power and extend the leadership of African American women." Early on the Council campaigned to outlaw the discriminatory poll tax, develop a public health program, adopt anti-lynching legislation, and end discrimination in the U.S. Armed Forces, defense industries, and government housing. The Council's 1995 move to this grand former hotel building made it the only African American organization owning property on historic Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House. The Council created the National Black Family Celebration in 1986.”
Another bronze plaque aside the building's front door states that this is the "Dorothy I. Height Building."
Dorothy Irene Height was president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, from 1957 to 1997. At the time of her death in 2010,Height had been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal for her extensive involvement over the years in civil rights and women's rights issues, with particular emphasis on African-American women and the challenges they faced that included illiteracy, unemployment, and the most basic and fundamental right of all Americans -- the right to vote.
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