Photo credit: NewSouth Books It s in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, by C.T. Vivian with Steve Fiffer. Foreword by Andrew Young. Published 2021 by NewSouth Books, 208 pages, $24.95. C.T. Vivian entered Macomb High School in 1938. I never thought of using the term institutional racism to describe the place, he wrote in his posthumous memoir. This wasn t because such racism didn t exist. Rather, I just didn t know there was a term to describe what I experienced. The book – titled,
It s in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, and released in March 2021 – covers Vivian s experiences in Illinois. Vivian was born in 1924. He died at age 95 on July 17 of last year, the same day as his close friend and fellow civil rights leader, Congressman John Lewis.
Atlanta Magazine
An excerpt from C.T. Vivian’s posthumous memoir, Itâs in the Action
The new book, out this month, chronicles Vivian s life during the 1950s and â60s and his relationship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Photograph by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images
Civil and human rights leader Rev. Cordy Tindell âC.T.â Vivian used a mantra anytime he became involved with nonviolent efforts towards change: Always connect the issue to what people value.
For his posthumous memoir,
Itâs in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, Vivian, who Martin Luther King, Jr. called âthe greatest preacher to ever live,â revisits his seven decades of activism and the life lessons resulting from those strategies toward advancing equality for all people.
Alamo’s history before and after Texas Revolution
To understand why the battle over the Alamo’s future is so contentious, it’s important to understand its past.
There are many layers and complexities when it comes to the Alamo’s history. Texas was a frontier region when the Spaniards began to explore the area.
It was difficult to establish a foothold in the area so the Spaniard established missions across the state.
Indigenous people, known as the Coahuiltecans, had been living in Texas for thousands of years and the Spanish wanted to convert them to Catholicism.
(Spanish missions in Texas)
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Anatomy of an Essential Industry – BPR Interviews: Josh Levin ’02
January 1, 2021 Image Credit | J. Seidman
Josh Levin is Slate’s national editor, author of the book The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth,
and the host of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen.
Earlier this year, Levin hosted Slow Burn Season 4
, a podcast series examining the story of David Duke and his political rise in Louisiana in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He graduated from Brown University in 2002 with degrees in computer science and history.
Tucker Wilke: How did you first get into journalism?
Josh Levin: I always loved writing, and I did some writing for