On the recordMay 8, 2010
But I want you to think about Ms. Dorothy Height, a Black woman in 1929 refusing to be denied her dream of a college education.
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presidency.ucsb.edu“But I want you to think about Ms. Dorothy Height, a Black woman in 1929 refusing to be denied her dream of a college education.”
Commencement Address at Hampton University in Hampton
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