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The United States Postal Service honored the "godmother of civil rights," with commemorative stamp Forever Stamp.

VIA MAIL ONLINE.com: Tears streaming down his cheeks, grief overcame Barack Obama [yesterday] as he attended the funeral of the woman he called the ‘Godmother’ of the American civil rights movement. The U.S. president was weeping openly as he watched the service for Dorothy Height in Washington today. He delivered the eulogy for Dr Height, […]

Dorothy Height, a leading civil rights pioneer of the 1960s, died Tuesday at age 98, Howard University Hospital confirmed.