MLK, DOROTHY AND ME
Dorothy and me. Dorothy and King. I recently had an experience I thought I would never have in my lifetime. This past October I was introduced to an elderly African American woman in our congregation named Dorothy Cotton. Dorothy usually sits in the row behind my family near the front on Sunday mornings. She is brought to the church by a young family that lives near her. I soon discovered that Dorothy Cotton was the highest serving female in the Southern Christian Leadership Convention - the sole female permitted into Martin Luther King Jr's inner circle. She was involved in many tactical decisions at the highest level of the civil right movement. Her focus was on education. If you google here name, pictures come up of her with King at various events. This past Martin Luther King Day I was invited to have lunch with Dorothy, along with my colleague, Pastor Eric Hause. The venue for our lunch was quite intersting: a local soup kitchen. We walked in. Our newer cl