Dorothy I. Height /C. Delores Tucker
Scholarship Luncheon

Presented by the Allegheny County Democratic Committee Black Caucus (ACDC)

A Salute To Women of Excellence 
Dorothy I. Height and C. Delores Tucker are trailblazers who championed the cause of civil rights and the strides of women. This luncheon is our opportunity to honor women of unparallelled excellence and to raise funds for the NEED's (Negro Education Emergency Drive) ongoing scholarship initiatives.

About Our Sheroes...

Dorothy Irene Height, an American administrator and educator, was a civil rights and women’s rights activist, specifically focused on the issues of African American women, including unemployment, illiteracy and voter awareness. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004. She passed in April 2010. Height spent her youth in Rankin.

Cynthia Delores Tucker was an American politician and civil rights activist, best known for her participation in the Civil Rights Movement and her stance against gangsta rap music. In 1971, Pennsylvania Gov. Milton J. Shapp named Tucker as Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the first female African American Secretary of State in the nation, serving the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1971-1977. She passed in October 2005.