Dorothy Cotton was a pioneer leader in the 1960s civil rights movement. She was the highest-ranked woman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Dorothy Foreman Cotton was born as Dorothy Lee Foreman in Goldsboro, North Carolina, at the beginning of the Great Depression on January 5, 1930. Her mother died when she was three […]
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