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GA HR2192
Resolution
Status
Passed
4/27/2010
Primary Sponsor
Roberta Abdul-Salaam
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AI Summary
- Honors the life and memory of Ms. Dorothy Irene Height, a civil rights leader born March 24, 1912, in Richmond, Virginia, who passed away on April 20, 2010
- Recognizes Ms. Height as the "unheralded seventh member" of the "Big Six" civil rights leaders, who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, A. Phillip Randolph, and others, and was a chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington
- Notes Ms. Height served as President of the National Council of Negro Women from 1957 to 1997, instituting social programs in the Deep South and establishing the Black Family Reunions program in the mid-1980s
- Acknowledges Ms. Height received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Clinton in 1994 and the Congressional Gold Medal from President George W. Bush in 2004
- Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to transmit a copy of the resolution to the family of Ms. Dorothy Irene Height
Legislative Description
Height, Ms. Dorothy Irene; condolences
Last Action
House Read and Adopted
4/27/2010
Full Bill Text
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