{"id":14787,"date":"2020-07-21T15:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T19:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atl.com\/?p=14787"},"modified":"2020-07-22T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:54:36","slug":"atl-stories-remembering-civil-rights-leader-rev-c-t-vivian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/atl-stories-remembering-civil-rights-leader-rev-c-t-vivian\/","title":{"rendered":"ATL Stories: Remembering Civil Rights leader Rev. C.T. Vivian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/vimeo.com\/439379917&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<p><b>By Anika Robertson<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Civil Rights leader Rev. C.T. Vivian. He was two weeks from celebrating his 96<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday. The former Atlanta City councilman and president\u00a0of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference\u00a0dedicated his life to faith, service and equality. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ctovma.org\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/ctovma.org\/\">C.T. and Octavia Vivian Museum and Archives<\/a>, a local\u00a0nonprofit showcasing Vivian\u2019s legacy, announced that the\u00a0funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday, July 23, at the Providence Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta. The service will be open only for the family, but local network\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/\" data-interception=\"off\">WSB-TV<\/a> is scheduling a livestream broadcast. 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C.T. Vivian. He was two weeks from celebrating his 96th\u00a0birthday. The former Atlanta City councilman and president\u00a0of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference\u00a0dedicated his life to faith, service and equality. The\u00a0C.T. and Octavia Vivian Museum and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":14802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlstories","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14787"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14814,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787\/revisions\/14814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}