C.t. Vivian

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - America lost a giant in the civil right movement in 2020, with the passing of Rev. C.T Vivian. His name may not be as familiar as Rev. Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior, but King, himself, called Vivian “the greatest preacher to ever live”. Vivian’s daughter was...

Sixty years ago, the Rev. C.T. Vivian arrived in Jackson, Mississippi as a Freedom Rider and was promptly arrested, convicted, then shipped to the notorious Parchman Farm Prison. In the famous mugshot from his May 24th arrest, he is smiling. So is a young John Lewis, who was arrested beside...

Thursday on Political Rewind: It has been nearly one year since the passing of two of the country’s greatest civil rights leaders. One of them, Rep. John Lewis, was a man whose name was known around the world. The other was C.T. Vivian, whose courage and leadership played a key role during crucial moments of the civil rights movement.

An Alabama publisher has released the memoir of the late civil rights leader C.T. Vivian of Atlanta months after his death. The Montgomery-based NewSouth Books said “It’s in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior” is now available. Vivian wrote the 224-page book with Steve Fiffer before his death last year.

MACOMB, Illinois (NEWS3)- A local activist is honoring a trailblazer of the Civil Rights Movement by opening a community center. McDonough County NAACP President Byron Oden-Shabazz said Rev. Dr. C.T. Vivian’s example as a leader and a blueprint for the greater goal, has inspired him to create and open up a community center in Vivian’s name.

It was raining on that February day in 1965, when the Rev. C.T. Vivian led a group of Black residents to the courthouse in Selma, Ala., to register to vote. Waiting for them was a “virulent, racist sheriff” named Jim Clark, along with his deputies and television cameras. Despite Vivian’s...

An autobiography from national civil rights pioneer C.T. Vivian will be released March 16. Raised in Macomb, Vivian began staging sit-ins against segregation in Peoria in the 1940s, successfully integrating Barton's Cafeteria — a dozen years before lunch-counter protests by college students made national news. Vivian, a close friend and...

In the days after radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh died, efforts to honor him in new ways in Missouri quickly grew. However, months after the passing of another famous native son, civil rights icon C.T. Vivian, the honors remain absent. With this disparity, we bring dishonor upon ourselves. A...

Are the flowers that bloom in the spring the same as those that died in the frost? "The Baptism," a video artwork featuring a poem by Carl Hancock Rux and directed by artist Carrie Mae Weems, opens with that parable. We are not the same nor are we different, the flowers say: "When conditions are sufficient we manifest and when conditions are not we go into hiding."