Dorothy Height, whose tremendous contributions to the civil rights movement are sometimes overlooked, died today at the age of 98. For 80 years she worked tirelessly for civil rights and for women's rights. She is widely seen as the first person to show how the two causes--civil and women's rights--are inextricably linked.
You can read about her amazing life in this New York Times obituary.
Ms. Height's autobiography, Open Wide the Freedom Gates, is available through our library catalog. Here is information on borrowing books through the UMUC library.
The photo shows Ms. Height in 2003. It is from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/us/21height.html
