Obama orders flags half-staff for Dorothy Height’s funeral
By Joe Brooks
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — President Barack Obama on Monday ordered the flags of the United States to be flown at half-staff on Thursday, the day of Dorothy Height’s funeral.
Height was the longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women and the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement. She died last Tuesday at the age of 98.
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