of her birthday, Google featured a doodle with a portrait of Ms. Height above protestors marching with signs. November 2016, honored with a 2017 United States Postage Stamp, the 40th stamp in the Black Heritage Forever series. The painting of Height is based on a 2009 photograph shot by Lateef Mangum. "I want to be remembered as someone who used herself and anything she could touch to work for justice and freedom. I want to be remembered as one who tried." – Dorothy Height References Sources Height, Dorothy. Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir. Tracey A. Fitzgerald, The National Council of Negro Women and the Feminist Movement, 1935–1975, Georgetown University Press, 1985. Judith Weisenfeld, "Dorothy Height", Black Women in America: Profiles, New York: Macmillan, 1999, pp. 128–130. Legacy: Black and White in America, a documentary featuring Dorothy Height. Norwood, Arlisha. "Dorothy Height". National Women's History Museum. 2017. Dr. Dorothy I. Height Facebook Page National Council for Science and the Environment Dorothy Height - The Daily Telegraph obituary, April 21, 2010 African Events Congressional Gold Medal Award for Dorothy Height Dorothy Height's oral history video excerpts, The National Visionary Leadership Project Dorothy Height's Videos Legacy: Black and White in America, a documentary featuring Dorothy Height Flag Half-Staff Day Order by President Barack Obama Dorothy Height (1912–2010): Civil Rights Leader Remembered for Lifelong Activism- video report by Democracy Now! Dorothy I. Height, Unsung Heroine External links Dorothy Irene Height papers at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Special Collections “ Mother's Day, May 12; Birmingham: Testament of Nonviolence, Part 3 [1 of 2],” 1963-05-12, University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 7, 2021. American people of Sierra Leonean descent African-American educators American educators Activists for African-American civil rights American Protestants American women's rights activists Congressional Gold Medal recipients Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development alumni Columbia University School of Social Work alumni People from Pittsburgh Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Spingarn Medal winners 1912 births 2010 deaths African-American activists Presidential Citizens Medal recipients Writers from Richmond, Virginia Delta Sigma Theta members American memoirists African-American non-fiction writers American non-fiction writers American columnists Journalists from Pennsylvania Recipients of the Four Freedoms Award American women columnists