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Published March 15, 2021 at 2:22 PM CDT Listen / Among his many accomplishments as a civil rights leader, the Rev. C.T. Vivian (center) helped integrate Florida's beaches by holding "wade-ins." Some turned violent, like this one in June 1964. The Rev. C.T. Vivian, the Missouri-born preacher who served as a civil rights leader and confidant to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died last year at age 95. Now, eight months later, Vivian’s posthumously published memoir brings the full scope of his long life and landmark battles to life. That includes successful effor...

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...

Atlanta Magazine An excerpt from C.T. Vivian’s posthumous memoir, It’s in the Action The new book, out this month, chronicles Vivian's life during the 1950s and ‘60s and his relationship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Photograph by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Civil and human rights leader Rev. Cordy Tindell “C.T.” 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, It’s in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, Vivian, who Martin Luther King, Jr...

Print It was raining on that February day in 1965, when the Rev. C.T. Vivian led a group of Black residents to the courthouse in Selma, Ala., to register to vote. Waiting for them was a “virulent, racist sheriff” named Jim Clark, along with his deputies and television cameras. Despite Vivian’s passionate pleas — “you know in your heart what is right” — Clark refused to let them enter the courthouse. He then turned away, gripping his all-too-familiar club. “You can turn your back on me, but you cannot turn you back on the idea of justice,” Vivian told the sheriff. “You can ...

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...