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History > 20th century > USA > Civil rights > Other 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/
obituaries/dorothy-cotton-rights-champion-and-close-aide-to-king-dies-at-88.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

(...)

 

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/
obituaries/dorothy-cotton-rights-champion-and-close-aide-to-king-dies-at-88.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/
obituaries/dorothy-cotton-rights-champion-and-close-aide-to-king-dies-at-88.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/11/
618915723/civil-rights-leader-dorothy-cotton-dies-at-88

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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