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It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, by C.T. Vivian with Steve Fiffer. Foreword by Andrew Young. Published 2021 by NewSouth Books, 208 pages, $24.95.
C.T. Vivian entered Macomb High School in 1938. "I never thought of using the term 'institutional racism' to describe the place," he wrote in his posthumous memoir. "This wasn't because such racism didn't exist. Rather, I just didn't know there was a term to describe what I experienced."
The book – titled,
It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, and released in March 2021 – covers Vivian's experiences in Illinois. Vivian was born in 1924. He died at age 95 on July 17 of last year, the same day as his close friend and fellow civil rights leader, Congressman John Lewis.