Scott King served with civil rights groups throughout her time as ... however and helped recruit thousands of participants. Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women ...

Dorothy Height of the National Council of Negro ... Height was inspired to get involved in the civil rights movement by Mary McLeod Bethune, another passionate civil rights activist.

As Women’s History Month celebrations continue, let’s focus on Dr. Dorothy Height, whom former President Barack Obama called the “godmother” of the civil rights movement. My generation ...

Explore their impact on the Civil Rights Movement below ... the fourth president of the National Council of Negro Women, Dorothy Height was crucial to organizing the March on Washington, though ...

Civil rights activist Dorothy Height noted the contributions African-American women made to the civil rights movement in a speech at the Scholarly Conference on Black Women in 1979. “We began to ...

This morning, still more tributes were paid to the "godmother of the Civil ... of Dorothy Height.” This morning, still more tributes were paid to the “godmother of the Civil Rights Movement ...

And so it was with Dorothy Height ... After a stint at the United Christian Youth Movement of North America, Height went to work for the YWCA. Soon she succeeded in getting the organization ...

I’ve known hundreds of Kamala Harrises in my work in the Civil Rights Movement ... I can speak of Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Dorothy Height, Ella Baker, Claudette Colvin, Johnnie Carr ...

Reflecting on Dorothy Height’s life of service, President Barack Obama called her “the godmother of the Civil Rights Movement.” She became an activist in high school, joining the anti ...