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Funeral for the Rev. C.T. Vivian set for Thursday

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FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2012 file photo, civil rights activist C.T. Vivian sits at his home in Atlanta. The Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund will honor Vivian with a lifetime achievement award this week. Spokeswoman Angela Brown said in a release that Vivian, a freedom rider and Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizer, is being honored by the organization Thursday, Aug 15, 2013 at its 46th annual Anniversary Celebration in Birmingham. Vivian joined in his first sit-in demonstrations in the 1940s in Peoria, Ill., long before the movement became national news. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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ATLANTA (AP) — The funeral for the Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early and key adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King, is to be held Thursday.

Because of the coronavirus outbreak, the service will be private and open only to family, according to a news release from the C.T. and Octavia Vivian Museum and Archives.

It's scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at Providence Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, and will be streamed live online and broadcast by WSB-TV.

Vivian died at home in Atlanta of natural causes at age 95 on Friday, the same day that fellow civil rights leader U.S. Rep. John Lewis died.

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Funeral for the Rev. C.T. Vivian set for Thursday

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