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______Charlton Heston marched for Civil Rights in the 1950′s
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Dorothy Height,
who as longtime president
of the National Council of
Negro Women was the
leading female voice of the
1960s civil rights movement,
died April 27th, 2010.
She was 98.
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Height,
who continued actively
speaking out into her 90s,
had been at Howard
University Hospital for
some time.
As a teenager,
Height marched in New York’s
Times Square shouting,
“Stop the lynching.”
In the 1950s and 1960s,
she was the leading woman
helping the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. and other
leading activists orchestrate
the civil rights movement.
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