FILE - In this Feb. 5, 1965, file photo, C.T. Vivian, left, leads a prayer on the courthouse steps in Selma, Ala., after Sheriff James Clark, background with helmet, stopped him at the door with a court order. Vivian led hundreds of demonstrators carrying petitions asking for longer voter registration hours. A civil rights veteran, Vivian, who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and served as head of the organization co-founded by the civil rights icon, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and died in July 2020 in Atlanta. Jackson, Mississippi's current mayor declared Wednesday, May 26, 2021, as C.T. Vivian Day in the state's capital city. (AP Photo/Horace Cort, File)