I first met dorothy heightrnnine years ago at a U.N. summit. During our quick interview, she talked about co-writing the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1948,16 years before passage of the Civil Rights Act. Fairness was her default position. Height, who died April 20rnat the age of 98, was a lifelong activist. A longtime head of the National Council of Negro Women, Height-often in her trademark purple hat and delicate suit-was also a counselor to numerous Presidents. She encouraged Dwight Eisenhower to desegregate schools and pushed Lyndon Johnson to hire African-American women.
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