Don’t miss the long-awaited East Coast premier of our documentary! It is part of the:

FINGERLAKES ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL  (FLEFF)

March 25th, 2023, 7pm at CINEMAPOLIS ITHACA, NY

TICKETS ON SALE  NOW 2023

Move When The Spirit Says Move–The
 Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton

Running Time: 87 min

A featured in-person screening of at Cinemapolis, Saturday, March 25, 7 p.m.

PSP filmmakers Ry Ferro and Deborah C. Hoard, and DCI Project Director Laura Branca will be present for Q & A, along with other special guests.
Ticketed event.

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 and her leadership. SCLC’s Education Director, and 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.

Trailer

East Coast Premiere will be on 3/25, and Move when the Spirit Says Move with be at Cinemapolis through April 7, for a 14-day run. Tickets available to the public at Cinemapolis.

 


We are excited that our 2020-21 exhibit SISTERS OF CHANGE, is now available online.

 



 

The exhibit honoring Dorothy Cotton and 25 other women change-makers of the Freedom Movement whose names everyone ought to know, was originally housed from January, 2020 to June, 2021 in the Atrium Tower of the Tompkins Center for History and Culture on the Ithaca Commons. We are happy that the exhibit lives on indefinitely in a new format for people to access anywhere.

https://indd.adobe.com/view/f2598457-f139-4ce8-8413-3ab34da1fd19

Here is a piece from Good Morning America, first aired in January, 2019 in honor of Dr. King’s birthday, offering glimpses of the immense contributions of Coretta Scott King, Dorothy F. Cotton, Jo Ann Robinson, Ella Baker, and Rosa Parks.

In contrast to the title of the article, none of these leaders were primarily “helpers” to MLK, Jr., but rather, they were powerful change-makers and movement leaders in their own right. These women helped chart the course of history.

Read in ABC News: https://apple.news/ASyo-fvwfR8qSQqMxm9YYig