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Person · 1924–2020

C.T. Vivian

The SCLC strategist whose courthouse stand at Selma helped force the Voting Rights Act.

A frontline leader of the [[civil-rights-movement]].

A Freedom Rider and King lieutenant, C.T. Vivian confronted Sheriff Jim Clark on the Selma courthouse steps in 1965 — a televised moment of moral clarity that moved the nation.

The Civil Rights Movement

On the timeline

  1. March 7, 1965
    Selma and Bloody Sunday

    Marchers for voting rights are beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, spurring the Voting Rights Act.

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