Civil Rights Legend Dorothy Height Passes

by Gary Kopycinski on April 20, 2010

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WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2010. Dorothy Irene Height, long-time civil rights activist, chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) and “godmother of the women’s movement,” died of natural causes at 3:41 a.m. Tuesday, April 20, at Howard University Hospital, 27 days after her 98th birthday.