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Dorothy Height, Largely Unsung Giant of the Civil Rights Era, Dies at 98

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Dorothy Height, Largely Unsung Giant of the Civil Rights Era, Dies at 98 By MARGALIT FOX Published: April 20, 2010 Dorothy Height, a leader of the African-American and women?s rights movements who was considered both the grande dame of the civil rights era and its unsung heroine, died on Tuesday in Washington. She was 98. The death, at Howard University Hospital, was announced jointly by the hospital and the National Council of Negro Women, which Ms. Height had led for four decades. A longtime Washington resident, Ms. Height was the council?s president emerita at her death. One of the last living links to the social activism of the New Deal era, Ms. Height had a career in civil rights that spanned nearly 80 years, from anti-lynching protests in the early 1930s to the inauguration of President Obama in 2009...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 21, 2010 (boomark / email).