Film Screening: Move When the Spirit Says Move: The Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton (2023)
Dorothy Foreman Cotton was a bold and highly effective civil rights leader, who educated thousands in their citizenship rights and inspired generations of activists with her powerful freedom songs. The only woman on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.鈥檚 executive staff, Dorothy was a charismatic, courageous and consistently overlooked key player in the Civil Rights Movement, whose freedom schools, freedom songs and inspiring messages of the power within us all are profoundly needed today.
Thursday, April 4, 11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Gannett Auditorium
This event is being co-sponsored by Professor Tammy Owens鈥�American Studies 342: Black Feminist Thoughts class.