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Dorothy Foreman Cotton Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Foreman Cotton, Dorothy, American, born 1930
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- Shaw University, American, founded 1865
- Virginia State University, American, founded 1882
- Dr. Daniel, Robert Prentiss, American, 1902 - 1968
- Cotton, George J., American
- Gillfield Baptist Church, American, founded 1797
- Rev. Dr. Walker, Wyatt Tee, American, 1929 - 2018
- Dr. King, Martin Luther Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957
- Highlander Folk School, American
- Clark, Septima Poinsette, American, 1898 - 1987
- Jenkins, Esau, American, 1910 - 1972
- Citizenship Education Program, American, founded 1954
- Date
- July 25, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 02:12:39
- Description
- The oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.40.1a, 2011.174.40.1b, 2011.174.40.1c, 2011.174.40.1d, 2011.174.40.1e, 2011.174.40.1f, 2011.174.40.1g, and 2011.174.40.1h.
- Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Daniel, and meeting her husband, George Cotton. She discusses attending the Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia, working with pastor Wyatt Tee Walker on organizing civil rights protests and meetings, and meeting Martin Luther King, Jr. She moved to Atlanta to assist Walker in his work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where she became Director of Education for the organization. At the Highlander Folk School, she met Septima Clark and Esau Jenkins and led the Citizenship Education Program. She also discusses the impact of King's assassination on the movement and the philosophy of nonviolence.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0040
- Place collected
- Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- North Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Petersburg, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Education
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Labor
- Religion
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Object number
- 2011.174.40.1a-h
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress