REMEMBERING DR. DOROTHY HEIGHT

A silent shudder has ascended through pockets of Black America as the nation grieves the loss of Dr. Dorothy Height, a decades-long female voice of the civil rights movement.
As the contributions Dr. Height made to the nation are remembered, so is the vacuum of both institutional and personal prestige, viability and visibility she left behind. Many of brightest stars of the civil rights movement such as Rosa Parks, C. Delores Tucker of the National Political Congress of Black Women, Coretta King and former NAACP leader Ben Hooks have recently passed. Hooks died on April 21.
“There has been a changing of the guard as our leaders have transitioned, but so few have positioned themselves as the new leaders, who are committed to the kind of activism that can command a large sustained following,” says Rev. Keith Magee of Chicago” The younger generation needs to identify with the elders. So at this time of mourning, we also mourn this disconnection. We seem lost.”