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Dorothy Height, the leading female voice of the Civil
Rights Movement, died this morning of natural causes.
She was 98. Speaking of Height, who led the National
Council of Negro Women for 40 years, late activist C.
DeLores Tucker once said:

"I call Rosa Parks the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"
Tucker told the Associated Press in 1997. "Dorothy Height is
the queen."

"She was a dynamic woman with a resilient spirit, who
was a role model for women and men of all faiths, races
and perspectives. For her, it wasn't about the many years
of her life, but what she did with them," former U.S.
Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman, a close friend who
has been running day-to-day operations at the National
Council, told the Washington Post. "She will be greatly
missed, not only by those of us who knew her well, but by
the countless beneficiaries of her enduring legacy."

Height, an activist in the struggle for civil rights starting in her teenage years, was on the stage at the Lincoln Memorial as Martin
Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. She said King spoke longer than he was supposed to but that when he finished,
she knew the speech would have a monumental impact "because it gripped everybody." She later said she wished that
someone had spoken on women's equality that day.

"Dorothy Height deserves credit for helping black women understand that you had to be feminist at the same time you were
African . . . that you had to play more than one role in the empowerment of black people," Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.)
once said, according to the Post.

As a teenager, Height marched in New York yelling, "Stop the lynching." In the 1950s, she pushed President Dwight D. Eisenhower
to move more quickly on school desegregation. She also went on to help coordinate the steps of the Civil Rights Movement. She
marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and led the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years, was known for her
determination and grace - as well as her wry humor. She remained active and outspoken well into her 90s and often received
rousing ovations at events around Washington, where she was easily recognizable in the bright, colorful hats she almost always
wore.

In a statement, Obama called her "the godmother of the civil rights movement" and a hero to Americans. "Dr. Height devoted
her life to those struggling for equality ... and served as the only woman at the highest level of the civil rights movement -
witnessing every march and milestone along the way," Obama said.

Vice President Joe Biden said Height was one of the first people to visit him when he first took his seat in the Senate in 1973.
"She remained a friend and would never hesitate to tell me or anybody else when she thought we weren't fighting hard enough,"
he said.