- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- C. T. Vivian oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 March 29
- Contributor to Resource:
- Vivian, C. T., interviewee
Branch, Taylor, interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2011
- Subject:
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
African American civil rights workers--Interviews
African American clergy--Interviews
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham
Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Nashville
Civil rights movements--United States
Freedom Rides, 1961 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, 36.16589, -86.78444 - Medium:
- interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- C. T. Vivian recalls growing up in Macomb, Illinois, working in Peoria, Illinois, and his call to the ministry. He discusses attending the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, where he met other civil rights activists and participated in demonstrations. He remembers planning the Freedom Rides, his imprisonment at Parchman Prison, the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, and working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 29, 2011.
Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
C. T. Vivian was born in 1924 in Howard County, Missouri, married Octavia Genes, and had four children. He attended Western Illinois University and worked as a minister and civil rights leader in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0006
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
- Extent:
- 4 videocassettes of 4 (DVCAM) (246 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master.
1 transcript (229 pages).
3 photographs : digital, jpg files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0006
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
