Overview

Dorothy Foreman Cotton was a bold and highly effective civil rights leader, who educated thousands about their citizenship rights and inspired generations of activists with her powerful freedom songs. The only woman on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s executive staff, Dorothy was a charismatic, courageous and consistently overlooked key player in the Civil Rights Movement, whose freedom schools, freedom songs and messages of empowerment are profoundly needed today.

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Dorothy Foreman Cotton

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LaTosha Brown

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William J. Barber II

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Andrew Young

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Carolyn M. McKinstry

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Bernard LaFayette Jr.

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