Anne Wheeler, Ellen Cussman (or Kussman), Dorothy Irene Height and Bessie Gant, Los Angeles, 1940s

Item Overview

Title

Anne Wheeler, Ellen Cussman (or Kussman), Dorothy Irene Height and Bessie Gant, Los Angeles, 1940s

Date Created

1940s

Date

1940/1949

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Notes

Summary

Dorothy I. Height, born in Richmond, Virginia, was a civil rights leader and served for forty years as the President of the National Council of Negro Women. She was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. She had also served as the president of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She died at Howard University Hospital at the age of 98.
Bessie M. Gant was a columnist from the Pittsburgh Courier.

Description

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
From L to R: Anne Wheeler (Delta Sigma Theta sorority?), Ellen Cussman (or Kussman), Dorothy Irene Height, and Bessie Gant.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph : b&w

Keywords

Genre

Black-and-white photographs

Names

Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010
Gant, Bess M., 1896-1962
Cussman, Ellen
Wheeler, Anne

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

People

African American civil rights workers