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History > 20th century > USA > Civil rights > Other 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/
us/ct-vivian-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
us/ct-vivian-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

(...)

 

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.

 

(...)

 

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/
us/ct-vivian-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/
us/ct-vivian-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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