Dorothy Irene Height

Dorothy Irene Height, who served aspPresident of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years until 1997, sits in front of her featured storyboard inside the “Freedom’s Sisters” exhibition at the Cincinnati Museum Center, Friday March 14, 2008 in Cincinnati. The Smithsonian traveling exhibit tells the story of 20 African American women who helped shape the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/David Kohl)