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FILE- In
this
Nov. 20,
2013
file
photo,
President
Barack
Obama
awards
minister,
author
and
civil
rights
activist
Cordy
Tindell
"C.T."
Vivian,
the
Presidential
Medal of
Freedom
during a
ceremony
in the
East
Room of
the
White
House in
Washington.
The Rev.
C.T.
Vivian,
an early
and key
adviser
to the
Rev.
Martin
Luther
King Jr.
who
organized
pivotal
civil
rights
campaigns
and
spent
decades
advocating
for
justice
and
equality,
died
Friday,
July 17,
2020 at
the age
of
95.(AP
Photo/Pablo
Martinez
Monsivais)
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Vivian
remembered
as
courageous,
humble
Civil
Rights
warrior
By
JEFF
MARTIN
apnews.com
ATLANTA
- The
nation
paid its
final
respects
Thursday
to the
Rev.
C.T.
Vivian,
a
pioneer
of the
Civil
Rights
Movement
who
helped
end
segregation
across
the
South
and left
an
abiding
imprint
on U.S.
history.
Vivian,
a close
ally of
the Rev.
Martin
Luther
King
Jr., was
mourned
by civil
rights
icons
along
with TV
personality
and
author
Oprah
Winfrey,
baseball
legend
Hank
Aaron
and
others
during a
funeral
at
Providence
Missionary
Baptist
Church
in
Atlanta.
Vivian
died
July 17
at age
95.
“C.T.
was
truly a
remarkable
man, a
man
whose
physical
courage
was
exceeded
only by
his
moral
courage,
whose
capacity
for love
overwhelmed
incredible
hatreds,
whose
faith
and the
power of
nonviolence
helped
forever
change
our
nation,”
former
Vice
President
Joe
Biden
said in
a video
tribute
aired
during
the
service.
“In
Illinois,
and in
Tennessee
and
Florida,
and
Mississippi
— in the
north
and in
the
south —
CT was
there
fighting
to turn
us back
toward
justice,”
Biden
added.
Vivian’s
death
came the
same day
as the
passing
of
another
civil
rights
icon,
U.S.
Rep.
John
Lewis,
80. In
1965,
Alabama
state
troopers
beat
Lewis in
Selma,
Alabama,
helping
to
galvanize
national
opposition
to
racial
segregation.
Details
of
Lewis’
funeral
have yet
to be
announced.
At
Vivian’s
funeral
in
Atlanta
on
Thursd
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