- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Cotton, Dorothy Foreman
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1972
- Subject:
- Civil rights leaders
Activists
Civil rights movements
African Americans--1970-1980
Women--1970-1980
Clothing and dress--1970-1980
Microphone
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Cotton, Dorothy Foreman, 1930- - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A view of Civil Rights activist Dorothy Foreman Cotton, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), speaking at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dorothy Foreman Cotton (1930- ) served as the Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) Citizenship Education Program beginning in 1963. She was the highest ranking woman in SCLC during the height of the Civil Rights Movement and a member of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s inner circle at the organization. She left SCLC in 1972 but continued her work as a civil rights activist. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.889.063
ahc101889063a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/120
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:120/manifest.json
- Rights Holder:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U. S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
