We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

On May 21 2010 a Call Box was dedicated to Dr. While there Dorothy Height developed leadership training programs and interracial and ecumenical education programs. She was later interred at Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Brentwood Maryland.

Dorothy Irene Height (March 24 1912 – April 20 2010) was an American administrator educator and a Civil Rights and Women's Rights activist specifically focused on the issues of African American women. Some issues Dorothy Height worked on are unemployment illiteracy and voter awareness. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.