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Apr 20, 2010. WASHINGTON (AP) — Dorothy Height, the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement and a participant in historic marches with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others, died.
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Legacy. of. Dorothy. Height. Born in Richmond, Virginia March 24, 1912, Dorothy Irene Height became for many, an example of a life of service. In high school, she began her activism, participating in anti-lynching campaigns of the 1920s. After attending New York University and Columbia University, Height became a social workers and transformed.
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Dorothy Height attends a 2006 congressional hearing about voting rights in the District of Columbia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.) The civil rights movement lost its founding matriarch early.
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Dorothy Height (born March 24, 1912, Richmond, Va., U.S.—died April 20, 2010, Washington, D.C.) American civil rights and women's rights activist, a widely respected and influential leader of organizations focused primarily on improving the circumstances of and opportunities for African American women.. Reared in Rankin, Pa., Height graduated in 1933 from New York University with both.
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Dorothy and Ivan Cousins, an antiques dealer and musician, were married in New York in 1950. They all met in Paris when Dorothy was living with Julia and Paul Child.
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Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 - April 20, 2010) was an African-American civil rights and women's rights activist. She focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness. Height is credited as the first leader in the civil rights movement to recognize inequality for women and African Americans as problems that should be considered.
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The passing of civil and human rights pioneer Dorothy Height at age 98 calls on all of us to remember and honor a life lived with passion, purpose and achievement. As a civil rights advocate in the early 1930s, Dr. Height took on the segregated institutions of that time and worked to make her vision of a just society a reality.
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Dorothy Height, the civil rights activist and pioneer, passed away early this morning at the age of 98. The AP is reporting that Height, who had been ill for several weeks at Howard University, died of natural causes. Height served for 40 years as the president of the National Council of Negro Women, from 1957 to 1997, when she became the chair and president emerita of the organization.
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Legendary civil rights leader Dorothy Height died Tuesday morning, at 98. She dedicated her life to empowering women and blacks, and lead the National Council of Negro Women for four decades.
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Dorothy I. Height was a model Black intellectual-activist. She challenged racism and sexism at an early age, setting the stage for a lifetime of activism. In 1937 she began working at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Harlem, New York, where she worked for over forty years. Working with the YWCA, Height met First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Mary McLeod
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Dorothy Height (March 24, 1912-April 20, 2010) was a teacher, social service worker, and the four-decade-long president of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). She was called the "godmother of the women's movement" for her work for women's rights, and was one of few women present on the speaking platform during the 1963 March on Washington.
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Civil rights activist Dorothy Height passed away on April 20 at the age of 98. During her long and storied career, Height received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton in.
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Legendary civil rights leader Dorothy Height died Tuesday at the age of 98. Melissa Block talks to Alexis Herman, the first African-American to lead the Department of Labor, about Height's impact.
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Brief Life History of Dorothy Dean. When Dorothy Dean McWilliams was born on 17 April 1917, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States, her father, John McWilliams Jr, was 36 and her mother, Julia Carolyn Weston, was 39. She married Ivan Roper Cousins Jr. in June 1951, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.
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On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, Dorothy Height sat on the speakers' platform and listened to Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech. She had helped organize the rally that brought about 250,000 people to the National Mall. In fact, she'd been in the forefront of the civil right struggle for decades as the president of the National Council of Negro.
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Dorothy Height served as president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, where she fought for equal rights for both African Americans and women. During the 1960s, she organized.