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Remembering Dorothy Irene Height

Holly Cowan Shulman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jim Crow, African American, Civil Rights, Dorothy Height, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ywca, Richmond, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ncnw, Politics News
Holly Cowan Shulman

Dorothy Height died this week. She was a witness to American history from Jim Crow, which prevailed throughout America in the year she was born, 1912, to the presidency of Barack Obama.

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Feminomics: Breaking New Ground - Women and the New Deal

David Woolner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Frances-Perkins, Josephine Roche, Wpa, New Deal 2.0, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, Great Depression, Business News
David Woolner

Looking back more than 70 years, we can see that the precedent for making sure that working women benefit from such federal programs as unemployment insurance came from the New Deal.

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