18-07-2020 13:39 via wbrz.com

C.T. Vivian, Martin Luther Kings Field General, Dies at 95

NEW YORK TIMES - The Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early 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 a half-century ago, died on Friday at his home in Atlanta. He was 95.Two of his daughters, Kira Vivian and Denise Morse, confirmed the death. Ms. Morse said he had been in hospice care.In a nation trying to come to grips with racial inequality in the 1960s, Mr. Vivian was a pa
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