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It's not too late to right a wrong.(Newswatch)(Dorothy Height)(Brief Article)
Dorothy Height earned admission to Barnard College NY in 1929. But when the college dean saw that she was African-American, he told her to leave because they had already reached their quota of "two Negro students a year."
She went home, crushed. "I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep for days," Height said.
Now, 75 years later, Barnard College has made her an honorary alumna, an honor it seldom gives.
Height went on to serve as the president of the National Council of Negro Women for more than 30 years and was awarded the Presidential ...
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