The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Dr. C.T. Vivian.

Civil rights leader and minister Reverend C.T. Vivian was born in Howard County, Missouri in 1924. After growing up in Macomb, Illinois, and attending Western Illinois University, he took part in his first sit-ins in Peoria, Ill in 1947. In 1959, while attending seminary at American Baptist College...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Other Authors: Vivian, C. T. (Interviewee)
Crowe, Larry F. (Interviewer)
Stearns, Scott (director of photography.)
Hickey, Matthew (director of photography.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Subjects:
Vivian, C. T. > Interviews.
Vivian, C. T.
African Americans > Interviews.
African Americans.
Civil Rights Leader > Minister.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (The HistoryMakers)
Physical Description:1 online resource (11 video files (5 hr., 20 min., 15 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
History Makers video oral history with Reverend Dr. C.T. Vivian
Reverend Dr. C.T. Vivian
Format: Electronic Video
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Summary:
Civil rights leader and minister Reverend C.T. Vivian was born in Howard County, Missouri in 1924. After growing up in Macomb, Illinois, and attending Western Illinois University, he took part in his first sit-ins in Peoria, Ill in 1947. In 1959, while attending seminary at American Baptist College in Nashville, Tenn., Vivian, with the Student Central Committee, approached Nashville Mayor Ben West and made him admit segregation was wrong. He was made a leader of the SCLC in the early 1960s, and in 1965 made national news when Selma Sheriff, Jim Clark, attacked him during a peaceful voter registration drive. Vivian also authored the first book on the modern Civil Rights Movement, Black Power and the American Myth, in 1969. He was the founder of BASIC, Black Action Strategies and Information Center, a workplace consultancy on race relations and multicultural training. In 1999, he turned over leadership of BASIC to one of his sons.
Call Number:E185.97
Playing Time:05:20:15
Credits:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Participant or Performer:
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Event Details:
Recorded Selma, Alabama 2004 March 7.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2016 October 5.
Source of Description:
Vendor-supplied metadata.