Oral Histories
Dorothy Cotton
2013-08-23T20:06:10-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvZTk3XC8yMDEzMDgyNDA0MTEzNDAwM19oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ==Dorothy Cotton talked about the early days of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, her working relationship with Dr. King and the impact of his assassination on the civil rights organization. As director of the Citizenship Education Program, she oversaw efforts to teach participants to read and write so they could pass voter registration literacy tests. Ms. Cotton was the only woman who was part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner leadership circle.
This interview was part of an oral history project on the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th century initiated by Congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Library of Congress, and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The interview was conducted in Ithaca, New York, by Joseph Mosnier.
Dorothy Cotton talked about the early days of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, her working relationship with Dr. King and the i…
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Dorothy Cotton talked about the early days of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, her working relationship with Dr. King and the impact of his assassination on the civil rights organization. As director of the Citizenship Education Program, she oversaw efforts to teach participants to read and write so they could pass voter registration literacy tests. Ms. Cotton was the only woman who was part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner leadership circle.
This interview was part of an oral history project on the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th century initiated by Congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Library of Congress, and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The interview was conducted in Ithaca, New York, by Joseph Mosnier. close
This interview was part of an oral history project on the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th century initiated by Congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Library of Congress, and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The interview was conducted in Ithaca, New York, by Joseph Mosnier.
Dorothy Cotton talked about the early days of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, her working relationship with Dr. King and the i… read more
Dorothy Cotton talked about the early days of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, her working relationship with Dr. King and the impact of his assassination on the civil rights organization. As director of the Citizenship Education Program, she oversaw efforts to teach participants to read and write so they could pass voter registration literacy tests. Ms. Cotton was the only woman who was part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner leadership circle.
This interview was part of an oral history project on the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th century initiated by Congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Library of Congress, and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The interview was conducted in Ithaca, New York, by Joseph Mosnier. close
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- Joseph Mosnier Associate Director University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill->Southern Oral History Program
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- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Library of Congress | American Folklife Center
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