Civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height, the president of the National Council of Negro Women for more than 40 years and a pivotal figure during the civil rights era of the 1960s, died of natural causes Tuesday morning at the age of 98.
Height was "the godmother of the civil rights movement and a hero to so many Americans," President Obama said in a statement.
When Height was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004, President George W. Bush called her a "giant of the civil rights movement" who had been an informal adviser to presidents and first ladies for more than 50 years.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family.
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