Dorothy Cotton's Books
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If Your Back's Not BentDorothy Cotton’s shares her personal story and insights as a visionary, peacemaker, life-long activist and member of Martin L. King’s inner...Read More
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Huffington Post, March 1, 2013
...view in my college years, working in the Citizenship Education Program of the civil rights movement, directed by Dorothy Cotton. The Citizenship School Workbook, developed by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, affirmed that "we love our land...
'Child Of The Civil Rights Movement' Author Paula Young Shelton Furthers Legacy Of African Americans
St. Louis Public Radio, February 27, 2013
...their Atlanta home were spent serving home-cooked meals and strategizing with fellow activists and organizers like Hosea Williams, Dorothy Cotton, and Whitney Young on what the next plan in the Movement would be. It was nothing for Shelton to wake up in...
Atlanta Voice, February 8, 2013
...will be an opening celebration on Feb. 22, including a lecture, discussion and book signing by SCLC leader Dorothy Cotton from noon to 2 p.m.; and remarks by civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, and SCLC leaders including: SCLC President Rev....
Huffington Post, January 19, 2013
...example. The Jim Crow American south that King stood against followed crude social customs. One of his aides, Dorothy Cotton, recalled for me in a public radio interview the system for withdrawing library books in the town of Petersburg, Virginia,...
PublishersWeekly.com, December 8, 2012
...and whose marquee player was the pitcher Satchel Paige. Atria If Your Backs Not Bent (Sept., $25) by Dorothy Cotton shares a personal account of her experiences at the front lines in the fight for civil rights, as the former director of the SCLCs...
Jerusalem Post, October 29, 2012
...to her post A meeting with the spokesman of the Jewish settlers in Hebron, "currently traveling on the Dorothy Cotton Institute delegation to Israel/Palestine." Wilder responds to her attack on him in his post, Jewish self-hate, Alice’s ideas have...
Southern Spaces, June 12, 2012
...in charge of education and student and youth outreach. Despite the enormous contributions women such as Septima Clark, Dorothy Cotton, and others made to the organization and the Civil Rights Movement, they filled traditionally defined female roles....
Montgomery Media, January 16, 2013
...Linda Holtzman, Mishkan Shalom’s former Rabbi Brian Walt, Heschel-King Festival coordinator Margaret Lenzi, former SCLC education director Dorothy Cotton, Network of Spiritual Progressives chair Rabbi Michael Lerner, Shalom Center director Rabbi Arthur...
The IthacaTimes, January 16, 2013
...by Robert Harris of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. Harris took part in a Dorothy Cotton Institute delegation to Israel and the West Bank, and he will discuss the trip as well as his experiences struggling for social...
The IthacaTimes, January 16, 2013
...who speaks out against injustice instead of a passive by-stander simply watching it happen. Veteran civil rights leader Dorothy Cotton sings with Vitamin L in a rousing rendition of “This Little Light of Mine.” With this album, Vitamin L...
Frost Illustrated, January 15, 2013
...in 1960 was also seen as a step toward bringing efficiency to the organization, while the addition of Dorothy Cotton and Andrew Young to the staff infused new leadership after SCLC took over the administration of the Citizenship Education program...
Attleboro Patch, January 14, 2013
...police, inner city youth, school teachers, clergy and the Rhode Island Training School for Youth. Working with Dr. Dorothy Cotton, the only woman on Dr. King's executive staff, she launched The World House initiative, promoting Dr. King's vision of a...
PublishersWeekly.com, December 8, 2012
...and whose marquee player was the pitcher Satchel Paige. Atria If Your Backs Not Bent (Sept., $25) by Dorothy Cotton shares a personal account of her experiences at the front lines in the fight for civil rights, as the former director of the SCLCs...
Huffington Post, December 4, 2012
...need to be thought about as sites of power, not simply as schools of virtue. Taking off from Dorothy Cotton's new book, If Your Back's Not Bent , which describes how ordinary people changed from victims to active citizens in the citizenship schools of...
