THE TELEGRAPH: Dorothy Height, "the godmother of the civil rights movement", has died aged 98.
Miss Height, the leading female voice of the 1960s US civil rights movement and a participant in historic marches with Martin Luther King Jr and others, died on Tuesday of natural causes.
She led the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years. She continued actively speaking out into her 90s but had been at Howard University Hospital for some time. President Barack Obama called her "the godmother of the civil rights movement" and a hero to many Americans. Mr Obama said in a statement that Height was the only woman at the highest level of the civil rights movement and witnessed "every march and milestone along the way." >>> | Tuesday, April 20, 2010
