In 1984 Cotten was declared a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts and was later recognized by the Smithsonian Institution as a "living treasure." She received a Grammy Award in 1985 when she was ninety, almost eighty years after she first began composing her own works.
https://folkways.si.edu/elizabeth-cotten-master-american-folk/music/article/smithsonian
"It's time for the black and white to get together and love one another. I feel it." - Elizabeth Cotten
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