The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and served as head of the organization co-founded by the civil rights icon, has died at age 95.
.T. Vivian, an early and key advisor to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who organized pivotal campaigns in the civil rights movement and spent decades after advocating for justice and equality, died Friday at the age of 95.
“You can turn your back now and you can keep your club in your hand, but you cannot beat down justice. And we will register to vote because as citizens of these United States we have the right to do it," Vivian declared, wagging his index finger at Sheriff Jim Clark as the cameras rolled. The sheriff then punched him, and news coverage of the assault helped turned a local registration drive into a national phenomenon.
Obama continued: “Rosa Parks said of him, ‘Even after things had supposedly been taken care of and we had our rights, he was still out there, inspiring the next generation, including me,’ helping kids go to college with a program that would become Upward Bound." He praised Vivian, then 89, for being “still in the action, pushing us closer to our founding ideals.”
Cordy Tindell Vivian was born July 28, 1924, in Howard County, Missouri, but moved to Macomb, Illinois, with his mother as a young boy. He later studied theology alongside John Lewis at the American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee, where they trained waves of activists in non-violent protest.
Vivian continued to serve in the SCLC after King’s assassination in 1968, and became its interim president in 2012, lending renewed credibility and a tangible link to the civil rights era after the organization stagnated for years amid financial mismanagement and infighting.
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Civil rights veteran Rev. C.T. Vivian dead at 95The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and served as head of the organization co-founded by the civil rights icon, has died at age 95.
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Civil rights icon Rev. CT Vivian dies at 95Civil rights leader Rev. Cordy Tindell 'CT' Vivian has died at age 95, his daughter Kira Vivian told CNN.
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Rev. C.T. Vivian, key civil rights leader, has died at 95The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and later led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has died. Vivian died at home in Atlanta of natural causes Friday morning, his friend and business partner Don Rivers confirmed to The Associated
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Rev. C.T. Vivian, key civil rights leader, has died at 95The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and later led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has died at age 95. His civil rights work stretched back more than six decades.
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Civil rights veteran Rev. C.T. Vivian dead at 95“He has always been one of the people who had the most insight, wisdom, integrity and dedication,” Andrew Young, who also worked alongside King, said of Vivian.
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