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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

A remarkable woman

Dorothy Height, civil rights activist, dies at 98
Dorothy Height, who as longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women was the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement, died Tuesday. She was 98.
She continued speaking publically into her 90s. I do hope that oral historians were able to record her experiences.
The late activist C. DeLores Tucker once called Height an icon to all African-American women.

"I call Rosa Parks the mother of the civil rights movement," Tucker said in 1997. "Dorothy Height is the queen."

Rest well.

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