As director of the YWCA Office of Racial Justice from 1965 to '77, and as president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. from 1947 to '56, Dorothy Height opened the door for thousands of black women during a time when getting your foot in the door meant entering to clean someone's house. But while Height worked hardest at self-promotion, scores of unsung black women worked tirelessly for justice in the trenches—women like abolitionist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, whom Temple historian Bettye Collier-Thomas writes about in her book, Jesus, Jobs and Justice: African American Women and Religion. "She was tough, bright, and understood how to utilize people and enlisted them to work on her behalf," said Collier-Thomas of Height. "That's what a good politician does."