Women played a vital role in organizing the march but they were mostly excluded from the official program. However women activists like Anna Arnold Hedgeman managed to convince Wilkins to include a female speaker. Only one woman spoke: Daisy Bates, NAACP chapter president and an advisor to the Little Rock Nine. Activist and entertainer Lena Horne yelled a single word into the microphone: “Freedom!”

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Women played a vital role in organizing the march but they were mostly excluded from the official program. However women activists like Anna Arnold Hedgeman managed to convince Wilkins to include a female speaker. Only one woman spoke: Daisy Bates, NAACP chapter president and an advisor to the Little Rock Nine. Activist and entertainer Lena Horne yelled a single word into the microphone: “Freedom!”

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