Praise for civil-rights leader Dorothy Height

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Civil-rights leader Dorothy Height ‘deserves a place’ in history books and America’s memory, President Obama said during a funeral service Thursday for Height at Washington National Cathedral.

Height, who served 41 years as president of the National Council of Negro Women, died April 20. You can read the D.C. Now post on her her funeral service here and her news obituary here.

-- Keith Thursby