C.T. Vivian, civil rights activist who led sit-ins in Peoria, studied with John Lewis and advised MLK, dies at 95

C. T. Vivian, the civil rights activist and organizer, at home in Atlanta in 2016. Vivian, a field general for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, died on July 17, 2020. He was 95. (Kevin D. Liles/The New York Times)