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How can we have more productive conversations with people we vehemently disagree with? Civil rights activist Loretta J. Ross gives us the tools to call people in—instead of calling them out.
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...
Public Seminar C. T. Vivian’s posthumous book, It’s in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, is coming out soon. This reminds me of an important 1984 New School event in which he was honored. That day, the focus came to be upon Adam Michnik. Today, I am remembering Vivian along with Michnik, as I seek to understand the challenge of simultaneously pursuing democracy and social justice. The New York Times, April 26, 1984: “A Polish Nobel laureate in exile stood in a church on lower Fifth Avenue yesterday and read an open letter of moral outrage from a jailed disside...
A civil rights hero’s posthumous memoir a guidebook for today’s activists Standing on the steps of a courthouse, the Rev. Cordy Tindell “C.T.” Vivian pleaded for the right of every person to vote with “verbal jabs” when a sheriff literally jabbed him, beating and knocking him to the ground. The Baptist minister and director of national affiliates for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had led a group of people to register to vote in Selma, Alabama, on February 16, 1965. “I had to get back up because otherwise people would have been defeated by violence. We can n...
Standing on the steps of a courthouse, the Rev. Cordy Tindell "C.T." Vivian pleaded for the right of every person to vote with "verbal jabs" when a sheriff literally jabbed him, beating and knocking him to the ground.