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'Reverend James Bevel' (b. October 19, 1936) the strategist, tactician, and main teacher of nonviolence of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in America, served as the Director of Direct Action and Nonviolent Education of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1962 to 1969. Born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, Bevel served in the Navy for a time and then attended the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee. While attending college, he joined with others in workshops on Gandhian Nonviolence, taught by Reverend James Lawson. Bevel also participated in the 1960-61 Nashville Sit-In Movement and the 1961 Freedom Rides, directed the 1961 Nashville Open Theater Movement, and co-initiated the Mississippi Freedom Movement with Bernard Lafeyette.
In 1962, after several years in the Nashville student movement, Bevel was invited by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to join the SCLC, where, on Bevel's insistence, they agreed to share work and move ahead on an agreed-upon agenda. As SCLC's Director of Direct Action and Nonviolent Education, Bevel soon initiated and directed the 1963 Children's Crusade, which sparked public outrage over the City of Birmingham, Alabama's use of fire hoses and dogs to stop elementary and high school children from marching to talk to the city's mayor. In September 1963, immediately after the bombing of the church in Birmingham that killed four young girls, Bevel initiated the Alabama Project. He co-wrote the project proposal with wife Diane Nash, and worked with Nash and Birmingham student activist James Orange on the plan from that time until late 1964, when SCLC and Dr. King -- who had originally opposed the Alabama Project -- joined it and it became known as the 1965 Selma Right-To-Vote Movement. After the shooting of one of the participants in that movement, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Bevel called for a march from Selma to Montgomery, which began with "Bloody Sunday" and led directly to United States President Lyndon Johnson asking Congress to immediately write and pass a Voting Rights Act. In 1965, Martin Luther King gave the SCLC's highest award, the Rosa Parks Award, to Bevel and Nash.
In 1966, Bevel chose Chicago as the site of the SCLC's Northern Campaign, where he initiated and directed the Chicago Open Housing Movement. Earlier, in 1963, he had also called the March on Washington as a response to U.S. President John Kennedy asking Dr. King to stop the use of children in Birmingham. He later directed the National Mobilization Against the War in Vietnam in 1967, founded the Making of a Man Clinic in 1970 and the Students for Education and Economic Development in the early 1980s, and co-initiated the 1995 Day of Atonement/Million Man March in Washington, D.C.[1]
The Republican Party ran Bevel as its candidate for Congress from Illinois' 7th Congressional District in 1984, and he ran as the vice presidential candidate in 1992 on Lyndon LaRouche's ticket.
James Bevel lives in Washington, D.C., with his current wife Erica Henry. He has been married four times and has 17 children.
In late May 2007, Bevel was arrested in Alabama after being charged with unlawfully committing fornication. The charges stem from an alleged incestuous relationship he had some time between October 14, 1992, and October 14, 1994 in Loudoun County, Virginia. The accuser is one of his daughters, believed to have been 13-15 years old at the time. Some of his other daughters have corroborated the accusation from their own experiences with their father, who has allegedly admitted to the acts on tape, claiming they were part of the daughters' "religious training." Currently charged in Virginia -- which has no statute of limitations for incest -- Bevel faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. He is free on bond until his trial. [2]
[3]
★ "James L. Bevel, The Strategist of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement", a 1984 paper by Randy Kryn, published with a 1988 addendum by Kryn in Prof. David Garrow's "We Shall Overcome Volume II" (Carlson Pub. Co., 1989)
"Movement Revision Research Summary Regarding James Bevel", an internet paper by Randy Kryn, October, 2005
"Advocate of the People's Rights: James Luther Bevel, The Right To Vote Movement", compiled by Helen L. Edmond, 2007 (Lulu.com)
★ The History Makers: Rev. James Bevel
★ Bio and discussion
★ Article about 2007 arrest
'Reverend James Bevel' (b. October 19, 1936) the strategist, tactician, and main teacher of nonviolence of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in America, served as the Director of Direct Action and Nonviolent Education of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1962 to 1969. Born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, Bevel served in the Navy for a time and then attended the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee. While attending college, he joined with others in workshops on Gandhian Nonviolence, taught by Reverend James Lawson. Bevel also participated in the 1960-61 Nashville Sit-In Movement and the 1961 Freedom Rides, directed the 1961 Nashville Open Theater Movement, and co-initiated the Mississippi Freedom Movement with Bernard Lafeyette.
In 1962, after several years in the Nashville student movement, Bevel was invited by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to join the SCLC, where, on Bevel's insistence, they agreed to share work and move ahead on an agreed-upon agenda. As SCLC's Director of Direct Action and Nonviolent Education, Bevel soon initiated and directed the 1963 Children's Crusade, which sparked public outrage over the City of Birmingham, Alabama's use of fire hoses and dogs to stop elementary and high school children from marching to talk to the city's mayor. In September 1963, immediately after the bombing of the church in Birmingham that killed four young girls, Bevel initiated the Alabama Project. He co-wrote the project proposal with wife Diane Nash, and worked with Nash and Birmingham student activist James Orange on the plan from that time until late 1964, when SCLC and Dr. King -- who had originally opposed the Alabama Project -- joined it and it became known as the 1965 Selma Right-To-Vote Movement. After the shooting of one of the participants in that movement, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Bevel called for a march from Selma to Montgomery, which began with "Bloody Sunday" and led directly to United States President Lyndon Johnson asking Congress to immediately write and pass a Voting Rights Act. In 1965, Martin Luther King gave the SCLC's highest award, the Rosa Parks Award, to Bevel and Nash.
In 1966, Bevel chose Chicago as the site of the SCLC's Northern Campaign, where he initiated and directed the Chicago Open Housing Movement. Earlier, in 1963, he had also called the March on Washington as a response to U.S. President John Kennedy asking Dr. King to stop the use of children in Birmingham. He later directed the National Mobilization Against the War in Vietnam in 1967, founded the Making of a Man Clinic in 1970 and the Students for Education and Economic Development in the early 1980s, and co-initiated the 1995 Day of Atonement/Million Man March in Washington, D.C.[1]
The Republican Party ran Bevel as its candidate for Congress from Illinois' 7th Congressional District in 1984, and he ran as the vice presidential candidate in 1992 on Lyndon LaRouche's ticket.
James Bevel lives in Washington, D.C., with his current wife Erica Henry. He has been married four times and has 17 children.
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Arrested on Charges of Incest in 2007
In late May 2007, Bevel was arrested in Alabama after being charged with unlawfully committing fornication. The charges stem from an alleged incestuous relationship he had some time between October 14, 1992, and October 14, 1994 in Loudoun County, Virginia. The accuser is one of his daughters, believed to have been 13-15 years old at the time. Some of his other daughters have corroborated the accusation from their own experiences with their father, who has allegedly admitted to the acts on tape, claiming they were part of the daughters' "religious training." Currently charged in Virginia -- which has no statute of limitations for incest -- Bevel faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. He is free on bond until his trial. [2]
[3]
References
★ "James L. Bevel, The Strategist of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement", a 1984 paper by Randy Kryn, published with a 1988 addendum by Kryn in Prof. David Garrow's "We Shall Overcome Volume II" (Carlson Pub. Co., 1989)
"Movement Revision Research Summary Regarding James Bevel", an internet paper by Randy Kryn, October, 2005
"Advocate of the People's Rights: James Luther Bevel, The Right To Vote Movement", compiled by Helen L. Edmond, 2007 (Lulu.com)
External links
★ The History Makers: Rev. James Bevel
★ Bio and discussion
★ Article about 2007 arrest
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