Bill Text: PA HR771 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Honoring the life of Dorothy Irene Height, the godmother of civil rights.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 33-16)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-14 - Adopted [HR771 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR771-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3638
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 771 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY BISHOP, McCALL, McGEEHAN, CALTAGIRONE, DONATUCCI, SIPTROTH, LONGIETTI, MAJOR, KORTZ, SANTARSIERO, MILLARD, WATERS, BRENNAN, GEORGE, WHEATLEY, DALEY, GRUCELA, COHEN, BOYLE, HARPER, BEYER, CLYMER, PAYTON, SANTONI, FAIRCHILD, GODSHALL, PRESTON, DiGIROLAMO, ROEBUCK, O'NEILL AND MARSHALL, APRIL 27, 2010
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, APRIL 27, 2010
A RESOLUTION
Honoring the life of Dorothy Irene Height, the godmother of
civil rights.
WHEREAS, Dorothy Height, who grew up in Rankin, Allegheny
County, passed away on April 20, 2010, at age 98; and
WHEREAS, She graduated from New York University with a
bachelor's degree and master's degree in educational psychology;
and
WHEREAS, Ms. Height was a leading civil rights pioneer whose
work spanned nearly 80 years; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Height's civil rights work began in 1933 when
she became a leader of the United Christian Youth Movement of
North America and fought to stop lynchings and worked to
desegregate the armed forces; and
WHEREAS, In 1938, she was one of ten young people selected to
help Eleanor Roosevelt plan a World Youth Conference and fought
for better working conditions for black domestic workers; and
WHEREAS, During her many years of leadership with the YWCA,
she worked to integrate YWCAs around the country, and today full
integration is so much the norm that it is difficult to remember
the time that it was not, thanks to her efforts; and
WHEREAS, She served as the tenth national president of Delta
Sigma Theta, a sisterhood of more than 200,000 predominantly
black college-educated women, from 1946 to 1957; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Height led the National Council of Negro Women
from 1957 to 1988, when she became the group's chair and
president emeritae; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Height was one of the few women, and sometimes
the only woman, to participate at the highest levels of the
civil rights movement and was on the platform when Dr. King
delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on
Washington; and
WHEREAS, An advisor to Presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower and
Johnson, Ms. Height is the recipient of the Presidential
Citizens Medal, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom From Want
Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and
WHEREAS, After a brief illness and hospitalization, Ms.
Height died on April 20, 2010, leaving an outstanding legacy of
accomplishments for women, for minorities and for all Americans
generally; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor the life of
Ms. Height by recognizing her lifetime achievements and her
dedicated service to her country, her Commonwealth and her
fellow citizens.
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