Dorothy Irene Height – Civil Rights & Women’s Rights Activist

Dorothy Irene Height (1912-2010), Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Activist, member of Delta Sigma Theta, and long-term president of the National Council of Negro Women (1958-1990).

When you’re a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.”

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