The 11lth birthday of civil rights great Dorothy Irene Height will be celebrated at a public ceremony at 10:45 a.m. Friday, March 24, at the Hull Street Branch Library, 1400 Hull St.

The program will honor the Richmond native for her 40-year leadership of the National Council of Negro Women, for her role as a key strategist and organizer in the Civil Rights Movement alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others, and for her service as the 10th president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

The sorority’s Richmond Alumnae Chapter will host the remembrance event for Dr. Height, a longtime advocate for Black women who was born March 24, 1912, in the Blackwell community in the city's South Side.

Dr. Height died age 98 in April 2010.