After working for a time as a social worker, Height joined the staff of the Harlem YWCA in 1937. She had a life-changing encounter not long after starting work there. Height met educator and founder of the National Council of Negro Women Mary McLeod Bethune when Bethune and U.S. first ...
Dorothy’s first job was as a social worker in the New York City Welfare Department. As a caseworker, she served underprivileged communities in Harlem, New York. In 1937, Dorothy met Mary McLeod Bethune who was, at the time, founder and president of the National Council of Negro Women (...
Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010)[1] was an American administrator, educator, and social activist. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994, and the Congressional Gold Medal...
This essay argues that Dorothy Day's 1930s Catholic Worker columns prudently translated Catholic social teachings in order to articulate a vision for radical Catholic social reform. Day's columns interpreted dogmatic Church texts in response to public outcries for social change during a period of ...
She began as a teacher and community activist in the 1930s in New York City's Harlem community. She met Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the late 1930s while working as a social worker at the Harlem Young Women's Christian Association. ...
This essay argues that Dorothy Day's 1930s columns prudently translated Catholic social teachings in order to articulate a vision for radical Catholic social reform. Day's columns interpreted dogmatic Church texts in response to public outcries for social change during a period of economic and ...