On this day in 1912, educator and civil rights pioneer Dorothy Irene Height was born.
On this day in 1912 by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today March 24, 2024 March 24, 1912 Dorothy Irene Height, right, with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1960. Educator and civil rights pioneer Dorothy Irene Height was born. By the 1930s, she was working with the Young Women’s Christian Association to improve conditions for Black female workers, which led to her election to the national office and the integration of the YMCA. “We cannot afford to be separate,” she said.
In 1994, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a decade later, she received the Congressional Gold Medal. When she died in 2010, President Obama called her “the godmother of the Civil Rights Movement.” In 2017, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp honoring her. Before her death, she said, “I want to be remembered as someone who used herself and anything she could touch to work for justice and freedom. … I want to be remembered as one who tried.
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