Dorothy Height, who died yesterday at age 98, dedicated her life to the struggle for equality—not just for blacks but for women of all races. Height spent four decades at the helm of the National Council for Negro Women. During her lifetime, she was an adviser to a number of U.S. presidents and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. "She's the last of the modern civil-rights leaders," Temple University's Charles Blockson said yesterday. "She was determined like no one I've ever seen," said Bettye Collier-Thomas, a Temple University history professor, who worked with Height to open a museum in honor of Mary McLeod Bethune.