Civil Rights leader Dorothy Height has just passed away.

[theHandpuppet]

Just heard this on the local Washington, D.C. news.

May our nation mourn the passing of a great Civil Rights leader and American.

[theHandpuppet]

1. Here's a link to the news of her passing

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Civil-Rights-Icon-Dorothy-Height-Dies-at-98-91581204.html

[Heidi]

2. WITF (central PA NPR news) is reporting this via Twitter, too.

Safe passage, Dr. Height.

http://twitter.com/WITFNews

[malaise]

3. Rest in peace you great lady

You made life easier for generations. :cry: :cry:

[Captain Hilts]

4. I'm honoring her by e-mailing the FDR Library to correct the caption

to the photograph on the online photo page that has her identified as Mary McLeod Bethune.

Doesn't even remotely look like Bethune because it's Height:

[theHandpuppet]

5. Good catch, Captain Hilts

Thanks for e-mailing the FDR Library.

Here are some links for those who may be unfamiliar with the life's work of Dorothy Height:

http://www.ncnw.org/about/height.htm
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/civilrights/p/dorothy_height.htm
http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=546
http://www.omega-baa.org/calendar/height.html
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2004/height.html
http://www.visionaryproject.org/heightdorothy/

Today we lost a great American who was not only a witness to a century of change but was so much a part of those changes.

[Captain Hilts]

6. This caption has been driving me nuts for years. The photo captions must have been

done by college interns at Marist University. So many are incorrect or are inadequate.

I'll say the same about the Betmann archive online. Just going through the Eleanor Roosevelt photographs you see things like the dates of the photos being incorrect by decades or "Eleanor Roosevelt with two English women." No, that's not an "English woman," that's Clementine Churchill. "Eleanor Roosevelt in Los Angeles with unidentified man." No, that's not an unidentified man, it's Samuel Goldwyn. So many of the online photo sites have bad captions.

Dorothy Height was amazing.