ATLANTA — On the eve of his funeral, a horse-drawn carriage will take The Rev. C.T. Vivian’s casket to Martin Luther King Jr.’s tomb in Atlanta on Wednesday.
Before the carriage rolls down Piedmont Avenue and Auburn Avenue to The King Center, Vivian’s body will lie in state in the rotunda of the Georgia Capitol.
Vivian died Friday at age 95.
More than a decade before lunch-counter protests made headlines during the Civil Rights movement, Vivian began organizing sit-ins against segregation in Peoria, Illinois, in the 1940s.
He later joined forces with King and organized the Freedom Rides across the South to halt segregation.
