SOURCE: NPR
Legendary civil rights leader Dr. Dorothy Height, who spent most of her life battling for the empowerment of women and African Americans, died Tuesday. She was 98.
A winner of the Congressional Gold Medal, Height had the ear of U.S. presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama.
In 1963, she was the only woman on the speaker’s platform when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream” speech. But Height she wasn’t on the program for that March on Washington – even though she was the nucleus of the meetings held by the mostly male civil rights leaders who planned it. Height told NPR in 2003 the experience was uplifting – even though a gospel singer was the only female heard from the podium that day.
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Unworthy to tie her shoelatchets : What an incrediblly awesome individual. While in her presence, typically at the annual black family reunions held in Washington, I felt that I was touching other historical giants like Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Rossevelt … that had passed on before Who will step up to replace icons like her, Rosa Parks and others who were giants on local, state, national and international stage?