Emory University Acquires the Papers of a Civil Rights Hero

The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) at Emory University has acquired a collection of papers from the Rev. C.T. Vivian and his wife Octavia Geans Vivian, who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Mrs. Vivian, who died in 2011, was the author of Coretta, a biography of Coretta Scott King.