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PHOTOS: Rev. C.T. Vivian through the years
A minister and a leader in nonviolent protest, C.T. Vivian was one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s lieutenants in the fight for civil rights and justice. He participated in his first sit-in in Peoria, Illinois, in 1947, nearly a decade before the Montgomery bus boycotts and well before King burst upon the stage. A skilled and gifted orator, King called Vivian “greatest preacher that ever lived.”
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One of his oldest friends from the movement is comedian and activist Dick Gregory. C.T. Vivian's often recounts an evening where Gregory showed up at his Atlanta home for a party. Vivian said afterwards, he had to explain to his children some of Gregory's "blue," humor.
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