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Hen the new president in 1928 came to almost white Portland High School, Pennsylvania, he was prohibited from Dorothy Height, who have often led to black students to do so, from the past, singing in school assemblies. After the act, along with blue school started for the first time the General Assembly, students did not sing. Pianist began more than two years, students will remain silent. Finally, the main stage of Dorothy angry hand. All the students stood up, choir, and split the air.

''This is a very strange experience, as if it had, in her memoirs,''said: height,''open the door to freedom. ''She will inspire young people between the previous Great Depression in the United States spontaneous protest against the white group, to prove her confidence and strength - they are in a service Shehui Li Suzhi outstanding individual sports career. Now 91, height is a long YWCA Executive and Chairman of the National Committee of Negro Women; in the early civil rights movement, she was the only woman in the leadership circles, she was President Eisenhower Clinton's advisers.

Although the height has been provided to her or influential people, she knows life is not amazing insight events in her book, gives an African-American, a sharp short-term courses years ago. She was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1912, when Jim Crow ruled and lynchings are not uncommon. Her mother was a black hospital nurse, her father is a construction contractor. When she was 4, most of which is in a blue house in the recent multi-ethnic European immigrants who settled near the black part of the diaspora to the North.

Even as a child, standing about reports show fear. After being rejected 12 to Pittsburgh YWCA pool entrance, director of the conversation she asked. She had a woman responsible, who explained that the girl's color does not welcome visitors. On the height and similar events, but no pain. She firmly believes she can overcome all the prejudices against her, in her high school, she will be the Elks, the speech contest sponsored by the State Constitution first, and get high Jiang College Scholarship.

After Barnard refused to admit her two black people,''quota''because its full high at New York University. She graduated in three years, received master's degree in psychology, education, and social workers. Her leadership of the Christian youth movement, where she for many years the future of the YWCA, she spent her black women,''she caused the state of Mississippi 3,''one of 60 programs, bringing together North and South National Council of Negro and white women, free, volunteer the most. She organized voter registration campaigns, the establishment of day-care facilities, school breakfast programs and job fairs, and started''Zhu banks,''livestock to poor families. ''When the men sometimes do not understand why I was always concerned with hunger, children and other social welfare system of apartheid, our people are strong men and women at this moment in history scholarship, she said, she served as the''United Nations citizens Rights and Martin Luther King Day, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young Leadership Council.

She did not explore this relationship, or character, a taciturn, extends to her personal life, she just simply deal with. High living and Iraq Feng Lei, a businessman who was her best friend tells me as''one,''and Robert Hall, Yvonne's twin sister, Marjorie widower ten years. Ray and Hall's''wife, high-function,''cooking, cleaning and packing luggage shuttle, leaving the high degree of freedom, but when working.

Performance of a class of their own secular nun. We have no reason to doubt her sincerity. She was a lot of people from the moral responsibility uncynical - this is the United States Xinzang movement since the beginning of the Republic of commencement of the motives, but unfortunately, it seems to be fading era. Today, young people''to know, 'How do I promote? 'Our question is,' How can we ensure that the people around the world move forward? '''Height wrote. ''We really believe that. . . We are building a new world. ''

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