The Woman on the Platform Who Kept Speaking

On August 28, 1963, Dorothy Height stood on the platform at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington. She was surrounded by the most celebrated voices of the civil rights movement — Martin Luther King Jr. , John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph. Yet no woman was invited to deliver a major address that day. Height, who had already been leading the National Council of Negro Women for six years from its Washington, D.…