Move When the Spirit Says Move: the Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton6:30PM-8:30PM March 21st, 2024
Move When the Spirit Says Move: the Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton is an award-winning feature-length documentary produced by PhotoSynthesis Productions and The Dorothy Cotton Institute.
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.’s 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.
After serving as Education Director of the SCLC for 10 years, and later in the Carter administration, Dr. Cotton came to Ithaca, NY to serve as Director of Student Activities at Cornell. In 2008, she and several colleagues founded the Dorothy Cotton Institute, focusing on human rights education and civic participation. Ithaca was her home for the last 35 years of her life. She passed away in 2018 at the age of 88.
Audience: Library staff and the general public are invited.
Directly following the film screening, there will be a Q & A and discussion with Laura Branca, co-founder and Senior Fellow of the Dorothy Cotton Institute
As DCI’s Project Director, Laura worked to secure funding and donations to fulfill DCI’s role as Executive Producer. Laura met Dorothy Cotton at Cornell in 1985 and helped design and facilitate DCI’s human rights and citizenship education workshops.
Laura has 37 years’ experience as an organization development trainer and consultant, has designed and led numerous workshops on anti- oppression and the dynamics of systems of exclusion, cultural competence, DEI, conflict resolution, effective communication and leadership development.
24 West Main Street
Dryden, NY
Additional watch parties at Groton Public Library, Newfield Public Library, Ulysses Philomathic Library in Trumansburg, Lansing Community Library (tentative), or virtually through Zoom. Use the link above to select any of these options.
This event will not be recorded.
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