Dorothy Cotton, civil rights leader and confidante to Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 88
about 6 years in Chicago Tribune
Late one night in May 1964, Dorothy Cotton stood inside a Methodist church and exhorted a crowd of civil rights marchers to take to the streets with love, not hate. A few blocks away, surrounding the central square in St. Augustine, Florida, was a crowd of about 100 white men and boys, a group...