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MS SC709
Concurrent Resolution
AI Summary
- Dorothy Irene Height, who died on April 19, 2010, at age 98, is commended as a founding matriarch of the National Civil Rights Movement whose crusade for racial justice and gender equality spanned more than six decades
- Height served as President of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years (until 1997), leading the four-million-member advocacy group comprising 34 national and 250 community-based organizations
- After the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Height led the "Wednesdays in Mississippi" program, which partnered with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to create Turnkey III Home Ownership for low-income families in Gulfport, Mississippi
- Height received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Clinton in 1994, the Congressional Gold Medal on her 92nd birthday, the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
- The Mississippi Legislature mourns her loss, commends her life, and extends sympathy to her surviving family through this concurrent resolution adopted by both the Senate and House
Legislative Description
Commend the life of Dorothy Irene Height, founding matriarch of the National Civil Rights Movement.
Last Action
Enrolled Bill Signed
4/28/2010
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