Dorothy I. Height, founding matriarch of civil rights movement, dies at 98
By Bart Barnes | Tuesday, April 20, 2010 | The Washington Post
“…Ms. Height was among the coalition of African American leaders who pushed civil rights to the center of the American political stage after World War II, and she was a key figure in the struggles for school desegregation, voting rights, employment opportunities and public accommodations in the 1950s and 1960s….”…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/20/AR2010042001287_pf.html
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