CSPAN3 Oral Histories Dorothy Height CLIP February 26, 2017
Ing, i went myself we had several meetings. But the explanation always was, ell, the a. C. P. , the urban league, the churches, the labor unions, all of them have members. Well, we said, yes, and we dont want a woman to speak for those organizations. We want a woman to speak for women. And they said, well, the women are represented. We werent able to break through that. There was some resentment on the committee, but john lewis, they stood up and they spoke. But in the end, if we just said, well, the purpose of this, we dont want to do anything that would shroud that. So we said the next day a...