It might seem incomprehensible that one could take a college course on the 1960s civil rights movement and not recall anything about Dorothy Height. Yet this was my embarrassing state of black consciousness back in the early 1980s. Perhaps it was caused by the second-hand smoke I blithely inhaled during my college days. But the… Read more.
Dorothy Height, “godmother of the civil rights movement,” is dead
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 5:16 AM