Skip to main content

1981-07-27, Dorothy Cotton Interviewee: Atlanta, Georgia

Thumbnail for 1981-07-27, Dorothy Cotton Interviewee: Atlanta, Georgia
View
@ Amistad Research Center

Description

Dorothy Cotton Interviewee: Atlanta, Georgia, 1981 July 27 [Box 140, Item 14, Side 1 and 2]. Tom Dent interviews Dorothy Cotton. Discussion topics include the Dorchester Citizenship Education Program; working with Septima Clark, Bernice Robinson, Andrew Young, and Fannie Lou Hamer; their use of music; nonviolence; comments on Southern Movement with John Lewis, comments on a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the movement in Selma, AL; Martin Luther King Jr. assassination; and assessment of Andrew Young.

From Collection

Andrew Young Oral History Collection

Record Contributed By

Amistad Research Center

Keywords

  1. Assassinations
  2. Civil Rights
  3. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  4. Women
  5. Young, Andrew, 1932

Related Content

View of crumbling building and debris after 1968 Chicago riots Mourners and flowers at MLK funeral Memorial March, Harry Belafonte and Corretta Scott King at Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral Aerial view of funeral procession for Martin Luther King Jr. View of building in ruins following the 1968 Chicago riots Aerial view of Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral procession
News Script: Trial Aerial view of mourners at funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta Camera men and reporters with microphones view casket at Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral
Download JSON