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#WomenCrushWednesday: Dorothy Height, Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement

Jenna Barnett 3-08-2017

Dorothy Height, June 2008. Photo by Adrian Hood /CC BY-SA 4.0

Height is something of an unsung hero to both the civil rights and women’s rights movements, largely because of the sexism within the civil rights movement and the racism within the women rights movement. According to the New York Times, Height is “widely credited as the first person in the modern civil rights era to treat the problems of equality for women and equality for African-Americans as a seamless whole, merging concerns that had been largely historically separate.”

Voting in Honor and Solidarity

Valerie Elverton Dixon 10-28-2010

When my children were young, I took them with me to vote. Before we went into the polling place, I said to them, "We vote because somebody died so we could have the right to vote." Now I think the reason we vote is because somebody lived so we could have the right to vote.

'God's Maternal Nature': One of the Best Mother's Day Sermons I Can Remember

Jim Wallis 5-10-2010

Yesterday I heard one of the best Mother's Day sermons I can remember. It was by the pastor at our family's church, Rev. Jeff Haggray of First Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Dorothy Height's Funeral: Lifting Her to Heaven

Jim Wallis 4-30-2010

Under the sweeping arches of the Washington National Cathedral, we celebrated the life of Dr.

In Honor of Civil Rights Leaders Benjamin Hooks and Dorothy Height

Valerie Elverton Dixon 4-21-2010

The world is stubborn. It changes its thinking at a glacial pace. People fear change, and they come to hate what they fear. Powerful interests do not want to lose or to share power. The work of social justice, of affecting positive change requires persistent commitment and radical love that gives one the energy to continue the work across decades.