**** The President Honors the Late Dr. Dorothy Height, Service Begins at 10am EDT ****

[Clio the Leo]

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream1

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Dorothy Height, Largely Unsung Giant of the Civil Rights Era, Dies at 98
By MARGALIT FOX
Published: April 20, 2010

The death, at Howard University Hospital, was announced jointly by the hospital and the National Council of Negro Women, which Ms. Height had led for four decades. A longtime Washington resident, Ms. Height was the council’s president emerita at her death.

One of the last living links to the social activism of the New Deal era, Ms. Height had a career in civil rights that spanned nearly 80 years, from anti-lynching protests in the early 1930s to the inauguration of President Obama in 2009. That the American social landscape looks as it does today owes in no small part to her work.

Originally trained as a social worker, Ms. Height was president of the National Council of Negro Women from 1957 to 1997, overseeing a range of programs on issues like voting rights, poverty and in later years AIDS. A longtime executive of the Y.W.C.A., she presided over the integration of its facilities nationwide in the 1940s.

With Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan and others, she helped found the National Women’s Political Caucus in 1971. Over the decades, she advised a string of American presidents on civil rights.

If Ms. Height was less well known than her contemporaries in either the civil rights or women’s movement, it was perhaps because she was doubly marginalized, pushed offstage by women’s groups because of her race and by black groups because of her sex. Throughout her career, she responded quietly but firmly, working with a characteristic mix of limitless energy and steely gentility to ally the two movements in the fight for social justice.

As a result, Ms. Height is widely credited as the first person in the modern civil rights era to treat the problems of equality for women and equality for African-Americans as a seamless whole, merging concerns that had been largely historically separate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/us/21height.html

[Clio the Leo]

1. ... and for those not watching....

... you're missing some good "sangin'" as we say in my neck of the woods.

[BlueGirlRedState]

2. The National Cathedral is rocking

What a great service!

[Clio the Leo]

3. Yes, even the President is wiping the tears....

.... and I've got some Kleenex on the ready.

[babylonsister]

4. Height 'stopped by the WH' 21 times! What a gal! nt

[Clio the Leo]

6. lol, in the snow!

.... uphill! Both ways! ;)

[Clio the Leo]

5. President just compared Miss Dorothy to "Queen Esther"...

... I bet half of the teabaggers could even tell me which book of the Bible Queen Esther appears! Dont you DARE question that man's faith to me!!!

[Clio the Leo]

7. "Let us honor her memory by making this country better...

.... God bless Dorothy Height and the Union she made more perfect." (said the President)

[Clio the Leo]

8. A very moving tribute to one of the Generals of the modern freedom cause. NT

[monmouth]

10. Gives me chills. The last of them are leaving us..too sad...n/t

[political_Dem]

9. The service is lovely and dignified just like the lady honored today.

This is truly a testament to such a brave and important life. Dr. Height would be proud.

[RandomThoughts]

11. Beautiful Service.

She seems like a really good lady. Peace and comfort to her friends and family. And may she rest with love and peace.

[tpsbmam]

12. A close friend worked as Ms. Height's assistant for many years....

She told some funny stories about her (not appropriate to repeat here) but what an amazing place to work and woman to work for. If I recall correctly, Ms. Height gave my friend her first chance at a job like that. She was a factory worker who put herself through secretarial school at night and Ms. Height hired her after that. My friend ended up doing magnificently well with a series of good jobs up until her retirement from her management job at a large corporation. I think her success began with the chance Dorothy Height gave her and her own amazingly great brain, skills & persona.

Great lady -- may she RIP knowing that she changed our country and, by extension, the world very much for the better.

[Cha]

13. Thank you, Clio..what an amazingly

productive long life Dorothy Heights lived..and she lived to experience the Obama Revolution.:patriot::patriot: