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04/20/2010 7:18 am 0 comments

Source: The VAL / USA Today

Civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height, who marched against lynching in the 1920s and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr., in the 1960s, died early this morning at age 98.

“I call Rosa Parks the mother of the civil rights movement,” the late activist C. DeLores Tucker once said. “Dorothy Height is the queen.”

The longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women and a winner of the Congressional Gold Medal, Height was the only woman on the stage when King delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech in 1963.

Height also dealt with presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama. We expect to be hearing tributes from Obama and some of his predecessors throughout the day.

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