Dorothy Foreman Cotton

Arrest Date	Multiple arrests
Arrest Location	Multiple locations
Charge	SCLC Director of Education. Citizenship Education Program.

Historical Record

Dorothy Cotton was the only woman in the inner circle of SCLC leadership during the height of the civil rights movement. She directed the Citizenship Education Program — a network that trained thousands of ordinary Black Southerners to read, register, and vote. She later served as student affairs vice president at Cornell University.

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