Funeral services for civil rights matriarch Dorothy I. Height have been scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday at Washington National Cathedral, according to the National Council of Negro Women, which Height directed for 40 years. The services are expected to be attended by an array of civil rights figures and dignitaries.
Civil Rights pioneer Dorothy Height died Tuesday at age 98. Height, who had been chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women, worked alongside civil rights pioneers, including Martin Luther King Jr., future U.S. Rep. John Lewis and A. Philip Randolph.
