Dorothy Cotton, civil rights pioneer and MLK colleague, dies
ATLANTA — Doroth Cotton, a civil rights pioneer who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesman Maynard Eaton told The Associated Press that Dorothy Cotton died Sunday.She was among a handful of women on the executive staff of the SCLC during the civil rights era, and she led the Atlanta-based civil rights group’s Citizenship Education Program.Cotton became one of King’s […]
