C.T. Vivian, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, to speak at Emory University on November 21 The day after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Rev. C.T. Vivian will visit Emory University to take part in a conversation about his life and his experiences in the civil rights movement and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 6 pm in the Jones Room at Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Library. The event is open to the public at no charge. President Barack Obama will award Vivian the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20. Vivian’s visit will coincide with the exhibition “And the Struggle Continues: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Fight for Social Change,” on display in the Schatten Gallery at the Woodruff Library until Dec. 4. The materials in the exhibition are drawn from the SCLC archive housed at Emory’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). “We’re very pleased that we have the honor of hosting his first public appearance after he receives the Medal of Freedom,” says Randall Burkett, curator of MARBL’s African American Collections. “We’ve had a longstanding relationship with Reverend Vivian, and he was instrumental in helping us get the SCLC papers.” Vivian will be interviewed at the Nov. 21 event by Andra Gillespie, associate professor of political science at Emory and author of “The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark and Post-Racial America” (2012).
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