Biography:Focused on the issues of African-American women as president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.
Born:March 24, 1912 Birthplace:Richmond, Virginia, USA
1965-03-20 Civil and Women's Rights Activist Dorothy Height has her first column published in the weekly African-American newspaper called the "New York Amsterdam News"
Bobby Seale
Huey P. Newton
Victoria Woodhull
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Margaret Fuller
Sojourner Truth