Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 20 May 2010 — Page 26

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May 20, 2010

In Memory of Dorothy Irene Height The Godmother of the Civil Rights movement

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"Self -help” is an idea that runs contrary to a pervasive conception of African American society as " over dependent

and predominantly welfare-orientated." she added, however, that such an outlook disregarded the reality that" the major energies of black people in America historically have had to be directed to attaining the most elementary human freedoms (such as owning one's own body and the fruits thereof) that our white sisters and brothers take for granted.’

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