Ecumenical Leaders Recall Dorothy I. Height As A Tireless Supporter Of Church Unity
April 20, 2010
April 20, 2010
WASHINGTON, April 20 -- The National Council of Churches issued the following news release:
Dorothy Irene Height, who began her activist career as a teenager marching in New York's Times Square shouting, "Stop the lynching," was remembered Tuesday as one of the last great voices of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Height, 98, who led the National Council of Negro Women for four decades and continued to speak out on justice issues in her 90s, died e . . .
Dorothy Irene Height, who began her activist career as a teenager marching in New York's Times Square shouting, "Stop the lynching," was remembered Tuesday as one of the last great voices of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Height, 98, who led the National Council of Negro Women for four decades and continued to speak out on justice issues in her 90s, died e . . .