Dr. Dorothy Height advanced women's, civil, and human rights through paid and volunteer work with the YWCA of USA, the National Council of Negro Women, and other organizations. She lived at 700 7th Street, SW, from 1983, and as President Emerita of the National Council of Negro Women helped acquire its headquarters, the Dorothy I. Height Building at 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in 2003. Her work connected her with many national leaders, including Barbara Jordan, Patsy Mink, Molly Yard, Alexis Herman, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, Coretta Scott King, Vernon Jordan, Roslyn Carter, Benjamin Hooks, and Barack Obama. She served as volunteer Executive Director of the National Council of Negro Women in 1942, was President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in 1948, joined the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1961, stood on the platform at the 1963 March on Washington, attended Kennedy's signing of the Equal Pay Act in 1963, and was present at a 1963 White House meeting welcoming Johnson as president. Height created the annual Black Family Reunion in 1986, and these gatherings, focused on the historic strengths, values, and traditions of the family, spread across the nation. In 2004 President Bush presented her with the Congressional Gold Medal, and in January 2009 she addressed the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly after President Obama's inauguration.