- Collection:
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
- Title:
- Rev. C. T. Vivian
- Contributor to Resource:
- Rev. C.T. Vivian
- Date of Original:
- 1950/1965
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
African American political activists
African American clergy
African Americans--Politics and government
African Americans--Violence against
Sit-ins--Tennessee--Nashville
Boycotts--Tennessee--Nashville
Suffrage--Alabama--Selma
African Americans--Social conditions--Southern States
African Americans--Segregation--Southern States
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
Civil rights movements--Southern States
Equality--Southern States
Social justice--Southern States
South Carolina--Southern States
Segregation--Southern States
Nonviolence--Southern States
Discrimination in public accommodations
Race relations
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Nashville Christian Leadership Conference
Freedom Rides, 1961
Congress of Racial Equality
United States. Supreme Court
Boynton, Bruce--Trials, litigation, etc. - People:
- Vivian, C. T.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Boynton, Bruce - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Calhoun County, Anniston, 33.65983, -85.83163
United States, Alabama, Dallas County, 32.32597, -87.10648
United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, 36.16589, -86.78444 - Medium:
- instructional materials
teaching guides
resource units
interviews
transcripts - Type:
- Sound
Text - Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- In this interview, civil rights leader Reverend C. T. Vivian recalls his role in the 1960 Nashville sit-in movement, the 1961 Freedom Rides, and the 1965 Selma voting rights campaign. An executive staff member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Vivian was an ardent advocate of nonviolence.
Includes a background essay, discussion questions, and alignments to teaching standards.
Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute.
Grade range: 6-12.
Transcript of an interview.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.vivian/
- Rights Holder:
- The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis.
- Extent:
- text/pdf
20.1 Kb - Original Collection:
- Washington University Libraries, Henry Hampton Collection
Teacher's Domain Civil Rights Special Collection - Contributing Institution:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Rights:
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