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Film, Video C. T. Vivian oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 March 29

C. T. Vivian oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 March 29

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Title

  • C. T. Vivian oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 March 29

Summary

  • 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).

Names

  • Vivian, C. T., interviewee
  • Branch, Taylor, interviewer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2011.

Headings

  • -  Vivian, C. T.--Interviews
  • -  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

Genre

  • Filmed interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  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

Medium

  • 4 videocassettes of 4 (DVCAM) (246 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. camera master.
  • 1 transcript (229 pages).
  • 3 photographs : digital, jpg files.

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0006

Repository

  • Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540 to 4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015669105

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Credit Line

Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Vivian, C. T., Interviewee, Taylor Branch, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. C. T. Vivian oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Atlanta, Georgia. 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669105/.

APA citation style:

Vivian, C. T., Branch, T. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2011) C. T. Vivian oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Atlanta, Georgia. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669105/.

MLA citation style:

Vivian, C. T., Interviewee, Taylor Branch, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. C. T. Vivian oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Atlanta, Georgia. 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015669105/>.