Civil Rights Pioneer dies -- C.T.Vivian

[JEDIYoda]

RIP!! The Journey has been long!! Peace!!

C.T. Vivian, civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 95

The Rev. C.T. Vivian, who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and later led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has died at 95.

www.latimes.com

 

[brycejones]

Total racist for pointing out racism.

 

[sdifox]

RIP

 

[kage69]

Sad news for sure. The man was a damn saint, the living embodiment of class. He never forfeited his dignity or morals for the quick satisfaction of decking a racist.

Doing that for as long as he did? We should name a mountain after him, or give his family and the country a statue of this noble man.

 

[HomerJS]

His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Matthew 25:23

 

[Fenixgoon]

Damn, him and John Lewis

Vivian helped organize the Freedom Rides to integrate buses across the South and trained waves of activists in nonviolent protest. It was Vivian’s bold challenge to a segregationist sheriff while trying to register Black voters in Selma, Ala., that sparked hundreds, then thousands, to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965.

 

[soundforbjt]

RIP
Two giants gone, leaving giant shoes to be filled.