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History > USA > Civil rights > Activists
Cordy Vivian 1924-2020
Mr. Vivian had a confrontation with an officer during a Freedom Ride from Montgomery, Ala., to Jackson, Miss., in 1961.
After arriving in Jackson, Mr. Vivian was sent to prison, where he was beaten by guards.
Photograph: Lee Lockwood The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Image
C.T. Vivian, Martin Luther King’s Field General, Dies at 95 A disciplined advocate of nonviolence, he was on the front lines in the 1960s movement for racial justice. NYT July 17, 2020 Updated 1:17 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/
Mr. Vivian, front row left, at the head of a group of about 3,000 demonstrators taking part in a civil rights march in Nashville in 1960.
Photograph: Jack Corn USA TODAY Network
C.T. Vivian, Martin Luther King’s Field General, Dies at 95 A disciplined advocate of nonviolence, he was on the front lines in the 1960s movement for racial justice. NYT July 17, 2020 Updated 1:17 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/
Cordy Tindell Vivian 1924-2020
pioneering civil rights organizer and field general for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the historic struggle for racial justice
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Mr. Vivian was a Baptist minister and a member of Dr. King’s inner circle of advisers, alongside Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Wyatt Tee Walker, Ralph Abernathy and other civil rights luminaries.
He was the national director of some 85 local affiliate chapters of the S.C.L.C. from 1963 to 1966, directing protest activities and training in nonviolence as well as coordinating voter registration and community development projects.
In Selma and Birmingham, Ala.; St. Augustine, Fla.; Jackson, Miss.; and other segregated cities, Mr. Vivian led sit-ins at lunch counters, boycotts of businesses, and marches that continued for weeks or months, raising tensions that often led to mass arrests and harsh repression.
Televised scenes of marchers attacked by police officers and firefighters with cattle prods, snarling dogs, fire hoses and nightsticks shocked the national conscience, legitimized the civil rights movement and led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Like his followers, Mr. Vivian was arrested often, jailed and beaten.
In 1961, at the end of a violence-plagued interracial Freedom Ride to Jackson, Mr. Vivian was dispatched to the Hinds County Prison Farm, where he was brutally beaten by guards.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/
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