Celebrate Black History 2021 - Dorothy Height

by Dick Mac

Dorothy Irene Height was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 24, 1912 and died in Washington, D.C., on April 20, 2010.

She was a civil rights and women's rights activist who focused on unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness, is credited as the first civil rights leader to speak-out about inequality of women, and was president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years.

She started her career as a social worker and eventually joined the YWCA. Under her leadership that organization spearheaded work in both the civil rights and women's rights movements. She also worked for reporoductive rights and freedom.

In 1994, President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Barack Obama called her the godmother of the civil rights movement, and she was seated as an honored guest on the stage at Obama's first inauguration, the year before her death.

She is not as well-known as many of her contemporaries, but she was instrumental in progress made by black women in America. She embodies the American spirit and is a hero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Height

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