Dorothy F. Cotton

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Dorothy Cotton (1930–2018) was a lifelong civil rights activist who was the highest-ranking woman in the Southern Leadership Conference (SCLC), and was a speaker, singer, peacemaker, and visionary dedicated to social justice.

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If Your Back's Not Bent

The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement

By Dorothy F. Cotton

Foreword by Andrew Young / Introduction by Vincent Harding

An unsung hero of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s inner circle reveals the true story behind the Citizenship Education Program—a little-known training program for disenfranchised citizens—reflecting on its huge importance to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and explaining its indisputable ...

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