From United Methodist News Service:
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, Dorothy Height was the only woman, besides Mrs. King, invited onto the platform.
When Barack Obama was sworn in as the nation’s first African-American president 46 years later, she was invited onto the platform once again.
“This is real recognition that civil rights was not just what Dr. King dreamed,” she told The New York Times about Obama’s inauguration. “But it took a lot of people a lot of work to make this happen, and they feel part of it.”
Height, a United Methodist who worked tirelessly on behalf of civil rights and equality for women, was one of those people. She died April 20 at Howard University Hospital in Washington at the age of 98.
The whole article is available at umc.org.