Dorothy Irene Height, a Richmond native whose fight for racial and gender equality spanned eight decades -- 40 years as head of the National Council of Negro Women -- died Tuesday in Washington.

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WASHINGTON -- The White House says President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy Thursday at the funeral for civil rights leader Dorothy Height. Height died last week at age 98 after a long illness.

are flying at half-staff today--under the order of President Barack Obama--out of "respect for the memory of Dorothy Height." This morning, still more tributes were paid to the "godmother of the ...

Once one of the country’s most prominent civil rights leaders, the late Dorothy Height will now have her own post office. President Obama recently signed a bill naming an United States post ...

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Rather, this was the Verizon Innovation Learning Lab at New Orleans’ Dorothy Height Charter School, where the telecommunications company has provided augmented learning tools, virtual reality ...

Featured on the right, Dorothy Height was a civil rights activist ... she was widely unknown until an NPR documentary about her life aired in 2009. In 1964, Patsy Mink was the first woman of ...