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The civil rights activist so close to Martin Luther King Jr. she was thought of as his 'other wife'

  • Written by Jason Miller, Professor of English, North Carolina State University
Civil rights activist Dorothy Cotton teaches a student in one of her Citizenship Education Program classes.Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Department of Special Collections, © Stanford University Libraries, CC BY-NC

In a recent article published in Standpoint Magazine, Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Luther King Jr. biographer David Garrow...

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