. >> i think about dorothy hite. who was the woman who brought the men together when they were in total disrepair. dorothy hite and so many others, who were the backbone, as women in certainly the african-american community have been just that. we have a word, mama. it has two definitions. and it raised its ugly head, particularly when corporate america began to open doors to african-americans and there was a competition between the male and the female. mama had two connotations at that time. mama, the nurturing, loving person who took care of the family, who solved all the problems and what not, and the other, if i may say, hey, momma, the hot secretary woman. and where do those two things come together? we became divided over the essence of those two entities. i am concerned today that women are still not in the line of pushing, leadership, we're there, but we're being ignored. and that's why your program and others like yours are so important. z >> do we not take our place in leadership in the way we need to? is t

dorothy hite, one of main planners of the march. she was the one woman and they used to crop her out of the pictures, until she learned to stand in the middle where they couldn't crop her out. she made her case as strongly as possible to have a female speaker on the podium that day, have a female speaker, and they refused. the men all said no, the men are going to do this, and after the march, president kennedy invited the organizers to come to the white house. if you looked at the pictures today on t.v. of all the men with kennedy, they told the women you can't come, go back to your hotels, and that included coretta scott king, king's wife. >> you feel she was marginalized in the years after the march? >> in the years after the march, after he was assassinated, the male movement leaders at that time came to her and they said we know you're planning on opening the martin luther king center in atlanta, which exists today as the most complete archive of the civil rights movement. we know you're going to open this, but you really need

. >> reporter: so did the late civil rights leader, dorothy hite, her in the hat. >> when he lifted hise he was taking us all in. >> reporter: and as he did he ended with the wrds of an old hymn he used to sing. >> free at last! free at last! thank god almighty we are free at last! >> reporter: on one day, one man with a dream, lifting a nation on the wings of hope and history. ♪ hallelujah ♪ glory glory hallelujah ♪ his truth is marching on >> thank god for mihalia jackson going, tell them about the dream! >> tell them about the dream, and that brought it all back. they had been up until 4:00 in the morning the night before. you heard him say, walking up and down the stairs trying to figure the right way to finish the speech. "i have a dream" was not part of the plan. don't use it, it's trite, cliche. don't use it. use something else. and he went out there. >> blew them out. the original draft doesn't sound so sexy. entitled normalcy, never again. >> nah. >> "i have a dream" sounds like it hits you right in the marrow of your bones. >> absolutely. looking at the black and white, you st