Black Women and the March on Washington: The Work of Dorothy Height and Anna Arnold Hedgeman
AUTUMN DUNCAN AND CAMERON KATZ /
Teen Vogue
history often forgets the unsung heroes of the movement: women. Civil rights leaders like Dorothy Height, Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Myrlie Evers, Daisy Bates, Diane Nash, and Gloria Richardson contributed significantly to the planning and execution of the March — and yet their names rarely grace history textbooks in school. Their stories go untold because history has largely avoided discussing gender biases in the civil rights movement.