http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47683000/jpg/_47683015_009147338-1.jpg"I have a dream." Dorothy Height was standing beside Martin Luther King when he delivered his famous speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, 28 August 1963. She outlived him by more than 40 years, championing his cause.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47683000/jpg/_47683016_009147009-1.jpgPresident Barack Obama called her the “godmother of the civil rights movement”. As head of the National Council of Negro Women, Ms Height campaigned through the 1960s for civil rights in the US, raising the issue with every president in office.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47683000/jpg/_47683017_009147321-1.jpgA rare image without a hat. Dorothy Height may be associated with the 1960s in the public mind, but her activism stretched back to the 1930s and she remained active until the late 1990s.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47683000/jpg/_47683018_009147387-1.jpgReceiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in August 1994. US President Bill Clinton applauded Ms Height after decorating her with one of the country’s highest honours.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47683000/jpg/_47683019_009147323-1.jpgHere Ms Heighs was saying farewell to another civil rights legend. In October 2005, she was in Washington to pay tribute to Rosa Parks, whose body had been laid in state at the US Capitol.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47683000/jpg/_47683020_009147340-1.jpgInMarch 2008, Ms Height was honoured at an exhibition in Cincinatti called Freedom’s Sisters, commemorating champions of civil rights for women.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47683000/jpg/_47683021_009148397-2.jpgJust more than a year before her death, she was at the White House to witness the first black president, Barack Obama, sign an order setting up the White House Council on Women and Girls.
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