The exhibition featuring materials from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) archive opened Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 at Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library. Titled "And the Struggle Continues: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Fight for Social Change," the dis…
One of the featured events was the lecture, and discussion by Dorothy Cotton, national education director of the SCLC from 1960-1968 and former vice president for field operations at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. She is also author of a newly released book, "If Your Back's Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement."
This opening celebration on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 featured remarks by SCLC leaders Charles Steele Jr. (national CEO) and Bernard Lafayette (chairman of the national board); and Dorothy Cotton (national education director from1960-1968).