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Dr. Height receives USM Frederick Douglass Award

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From: Baltimore Afro-American
Date: 20010727
Author:Boulware, Dorothy S.

Boulware, Dorothy S.
Baltimore Afro-American
07-27-2001
Dr. Height receives USM Frederick Douglass Award

Dr. Dorothy Irene Height, president emerita of the National Council of
Negro Women, received the University System of Maryland's board of regents'
annual Frederick Douglass Award July 17 at Westminster Hall.

An internationally recognized leader of the civil right movement became one
of the first leaders of the United Christian Youth Movement, and in that
and future capacities, became a liaison between the "haves" and the
"have-nots," building bridges that brought relief and resolution for the
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