Cicely Tyson, Diana Ross & Other Black Women Who’ve Received Presidential Medals Of Freedom
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Veronica Wells
Dorothy Height
The same day Barbara Jordan received her Medal of Freedom, Civil and Women’s Rights leader Dorothy Height also received a Medal of Freedom by President Clinton. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women and in the 1990’s, she worked in the war against drugs, illiteracy and unemployment. Ten years later, she received the Congressional Gold Medal.
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