#dorothyiheight

[4evahaka]

#Monday #13February2017, The #USPostalService Will Be Holding A #CommemorativeCeremony In #Honor Of #DorothyIHeight's #BlackHeritageForeverStamp! #DorothyHeight Was DEDICATED To The #Fight For #CivilRights AND #WomensRights #10thNationalPresident Of #DeltaSigmaTheta #NationalCouncilOfNegroWomen #DeltaHistoryISBlackHistory #DrDorothyHeightISBlackHistory #BlackExcellence #BlackAchievements #DST1913 #DST104 #DorothyIreneHeight

[afrodiva]

A well deserved salute to the legendary civil rights leader. However since her passing, from her obituary to later writeups, all have had a deafening silence on her trailblazing work in international development. Dr. Height launched NCNW's International Division in 1975 becoming the first and only African American women's organization working in Africa through a TWINNING agreement with African women's organizations long before it was trendy to do so. Focusing on institution building even long before capacity building of African institutions was ever on the radar of many in international development or even funding institutions. Her visionary leadership reverberates throughout the continent from former protégés in Senegal, now Minister of Agriculture to a vibrant civil society community in Egypt as a result of her pioneering work throughout Africa. With regional offices in Southern, West Africa and North Africa and a country office in Eritrea, Dr. Height advanced a regiinal hub strategy for NCNW's work in Africa a whole decade before any of the African regional blocks like SADC, etc., would be formed in the 80s. She understood the ties that bind African and African American women were greater than the waters that decided us and sought to improve the quality of life for women, their families and communities. Dr. Height often said that black women seldom did what they wanted but always did what they have do. Her work continues through the many organizations and women she touched in Africa.