Dr. Dorothy Height, The Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement
Dorothy I. Height, was remembered as a gracious and giving leader, who didn’t necessarily need the limelight, but didn’t hesitate to help African Americans, and black women particularly, gain social, economic and political ground.
The 98-year-old chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) and chairperson of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, died Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
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