Bevel, the Rev. James Luther
- Bevel, the Rev. James Luther
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▪ 2009
American civil rights leader
born Oct. 19, 1936, Itta Bena, Miss.
died Dec. 19, 2008, Springfield, Va.
was a pivotal and passionate figure during the early 1960s and, as the project director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, became one of the most influential advisers to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who headed the SCLC. On Bevel's recommendation, hundreds of youngsters were mobilized in 1963 in the “children's crusade” to participate in peaceful antisegregation protests in downtown Birmingham, Ala. The news coverage, which featured children being water-hosed by police and more than 600 youngsters arrested, prompted a groundswell of support for the civil rights movement. Bevel was later instrumental in organizing the historic march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery. The event was credited with helping to usher in the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Though Bevel initially intended to pursue a recording career, he recognized a calling to the ministry and was ordained after attending the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville. Bevel was forced from his position with the SCLC after exhibiting erratic behaviour. His contention that convicted assassin James Earl Ray was not guilty of King's murder embarrassed many in the movement. In 2008 Bevel's legacy was further tarnished when he was found guilty of having engaged in an incestuous relationship with a teenage daughter in the 1990s.
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