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CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Conaway
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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In Memory of Dr. Dorothy Height - 3/24/1912 - 4/20/2010 "Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement"
FOR the purpose of celebrating the life of Dr. Dorothy Height, leading female voice of the 1960's Civil Rights Movement and longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women, who died at the age of 98 after an 80-year campaign for social justice, gender equality, and human rights.
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On Tuesday, August 20, 2010, the National Council of Negro Women, of which she was the president emerita, announced the passing of Dr. Dorothy Height, at the age of 98. In a statement expressing sadness on her passing, the President of the United States recognized Dr. Height as "the godmother of the Civil Rights Movement and a hero to so many Americans" and, in a proclamation on April 26, ordered flags across the nation, embassies, legations, consular offices and facilities abroad to be flown at half-staff on the day of her interment.
Dr. Heights' New York Times obituary states that she is widely credited as the first person in the modern civil rights era to treat the problems of equality for women and the equality for African-Americans as a seamless whole, merging concerns that had historically been largely separate. "That the American social landscape looks as it does today owes in no small part to Ms. Height. Ori...
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