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History > USA > Civil rights > Activists
Dorothy Cotton 1930-2018
Ms. Cotton teaching a citizenship education class in Alabama in 1966.
The aim was to persuade black people to register to vote in the face of long efforts to suppress black voting by law and brute force.
Photograph: Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries
Dorothy Cotton, Rights Champion and Close Aide to King, Dies at 88 NYT June 14, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/
Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader, Dorothy Cotton (in glasses) at the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP) convention in Atlanta, Georgia, 1970 ‘In 1970, the civil rights movement took on a different complexion. Many of the principal players returned to the movement with law degrees and various other college and graduate degrees. Many of us were prepared to take our fight for justice, equality and equity to the courtroom.’
‘Now is a continuation of then’: America’s civil rights era – in pictures Doris Derby is a documentary photographer, activist and professor who captured the people at the frontline of the struggle for racial equality in 1960s and 1970s America G Thu 28 Oct 2021 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/28/
Dorothy Cotton (born Dorothy Lee Foreman) 1930-2018
a confidante of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who was the only woman in his inner circle of aides, marched in perilous civil rights demonstrations and was a driving force in getting Southern black people to vote
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A warm presence who occasionally sang spirituals to ease tensions at demonstrations, Ms. Cotton was the director of education for Dr. King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference;
typed his “I Have a Dream” speech in a hotel room in Washington in 1963;
traveled with him when he went to Oslo the next year to receive the Nobel Peace Prize;
and was staying in a Memphis motel room next to his until hours before his assassination in 1968.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/
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https://www.npr.org/2018/06/11/
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