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[https://eji.org/news/eji-remembers-civil-rights-leader-rev-c-t-vivian/ by Equal Justice Initiative 18/7/20] | [https://eji.org/news/eji-remembers-civil-rights-leader-rev-c-t-vivian/ by Equal Justice Initiative 18/7/20] | ||
A Baptist minister, Mr. Vivian was a key adviser to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and served as the national director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s 85 local chapters from 1963 to 1966, directing protest activities, training activists in nonviolence, and coordinating voter registration and community development projects. | A Baptist minister, Mr. Vivian was a key adviser to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and served as the national director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s 85 local chapters from 1963 to 1966, directing protest activities, training activists in nonviolence, and coordinating voter registration and community development projects. | ||
=====Civil Rights Icon Bernard Lafayette on His Friend John Lewis, Freedom Rides & Practicing Nonviolence===== | |||
[https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/29/bernard_lafayette_john_lewis_freedom_rides by DEMOCRACY NOW 29/7/20] | |||
We revisit civil rights leader and Congressmember John Lewis’s early years of activism with Bernard Lafayette, one of Lewis’s closest friends and collaborators. | |||
