United States: Tireless Civil Rights Campaigner Continues to Work for Social Justice.

Section: General News - At 93, Dorothy Height has been an eyewitness to more civil rights history than any other black leader living today. Ms. Height says she felt it was her mission to help people from the time she was a child in Rankin, Pennsylvania. An avid learner and gifted student, Ms. Height entered a national oratory contest for a four-year scholarship to Barnard College in New York City. Speaking on the subject of the U.S. Constitution, she won the contest and packed her bags for New York. But she says her arrival at the school was the first of many instances where she would experience the sting of overt racism. "I was accepted at Barnard College and was denied …