In 1957, Dorothy Irene Height became the president of the National Council of Negro Women, and she turned the organization’s focus toward the next phase of what was becoming the Civil Rights Movement: integrating housing and securing the right to vote. Height was the only woman invited to be on the administrative committee for the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.
