'Open Wide the Freedom Gates': She Shall Overcome
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/books/review/05DILIBET.html
By GIOIA DILIBERTO
Published: October 5, 2003
When a new principal arrived in 1928 at the nearly all-white Rankin
High School in Rankin, Pa., he forbade Dorothy Height, a black student
who usually led the singing at school assemblies, from ever doing so
again. At the first assembly after the edict, when the accompanist
began the Rankin alma mater, the students refused to sing. The pianist
began twice more; still the students were silent. Finally, the
exasperated principal motioned Dorothy to the stage. The student body
rose en masse, and a chorus split the air.
Dorothy Height
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