Freedom Fighters -- Civil Rights Honorees Battled, Beat Discrimination

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Civil rights pioneer Dorothy Cotton accepted a National Freedom Award and actress Eva Longoria Parker a Legacy Award on Wednesday, telling their audience that they grew up poor and felt the sting of discrimination.

Cotton, a sharecropper's daughter who became a student activist then education director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, accepted the award from the National Civil Rights Museum at Temple of Deliverance Church. She said she faced racial segregation as a child in Goldsboro, N.C.

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Freedom Fighters -- Civil Rights Honorees Battled, Beat Discrimination

"I was very conscious of the fact that (African-Americans) couldn't use the public library," she said of one of her most painf...

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