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When women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy Height, head of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), organized her own women’s conference for the very next day. Defying the march’s male organizers, Height helped harness the womanpower waiting in the wings. Height’s careful tactics and quiet determination come to the fore in this first history of the NCNW, the largest black women’s organization in the United States at the height of the civil rights, Bl
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- Author
- National Council of Negro Women;Tuuri, Rebecca
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781469638904
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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