HARRISBURG — Gov. Ed Rendell is ordering flags on Pennsylvania state facilities to half-staff in honor of the late civil rights leader Dorothy Height.

The flags will be lowered today. Height died last week at 98.

Height began her activism in the 1930s, marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and led the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years.

Height received two of the nation's highest honors: the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.