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/PRNewswire/ -- The Home Depot Foundation and The C.T. and Octavia Vivian Museum and Archives, Inc. (CTOVMA) are partnering to introduce a new, 16-week...

Anniversary Dates Focus on the Work of C.T. and Octavia Vivian Nonprofit Share Article At anniversary of C.T. Vivian's death, the work of the C.T. and Octavia Vivian Museum and Archives (CTOVMA), https://ctovma.org/ a nonprofit set up by C.T. to protect and preserve the 6,000-volume collection of books written mostly by African American writers continues to inspire Civil Rights leaders of today. In 2013, President Barack Obama presented C.T. with the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, "I am only here thanks to C.T. Vivian and all the heroes in that civil...

C.T. Vivian Day in Jackson: The late iconic Civil Rights warrior’s memoirs speak volumes to young organizers C.T. Vivian Day in Jackson: The late iconic Civil Rights warrior’s memoirs speak volumes to young organizers Contributing Writer, Vivian Little did the late Rev. C.T. Vivian know that Mississippi’s capital city would one day recognize him with a day in tribute to his Civil Rights legacy as a Freedom Rider. He was arrested May 24, 1961. Wednesday, May 26, 2021, was declared C.T. Vivian’s Day in the City of Jackson, Miss. The proclamation, in part, signed by Mayor Lumumba, reads:...

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...