MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR CIVIL RIGHTS ICON DOROTHY HEIGHT PLANNED
DOROTHY HEIGHT (3/24/1912 - 4/20/2010) The "Godmother of Civil Rights," Dorothy Height will be eulogized by President Barack Obama at the National Cathedral, Thursday. Height, 98, died of natural causes on April 20 at the Howard University Hospital a week ago. Beneath the beautiful hats she wore Height was an immutable voice for freedom an equality. She was the leading female voice behind The Civil Rights Movement, who literally sat a few feet behind Dr. Martin Luther King when he gave the I Have A Dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. Height was the President Emerita of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). After 40 years of leading the organization she became the chairwoman in 1997 and so remained until her passing. At the time, according to an AP obituary, the iconic freedom fighter said, "I hope not to work this hard all the rest of my life. But whether it is the council, whether it is somewhere else, for the rest of my life, I will be working for eq...