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