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James Luther Bevel (October 19, 1936 – December 19, 2008) was an American minister and leader of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
James Luther Bevel (born Oct. 19, 1936, Itta Bena, Miss., U.S.—died Dec. 19, 2008, Springfield, Va.) was an American minister and political activist who played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement in the early 1960s.
Jan 14, 2003 · Civil rights activist Reverend James Luther Bevel was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, on October 19, 1936. After a stint in the services, Bevel was called to the ministry and enrolled in the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dec 19, 2008 · Credited by Martin Luther King with initiating the Children’s Crusade during the Birmingham Campaign of 1963, James Bevel emerged as a civil rights leader from the ranks of the Nashville, Tennessee, student movement.
Mar 31, 2011 · James Bevel was one of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most trusted advisors during the American Civil Rights campaigns of the mid-20th century. Bevel was born on October 19, 1936 in Itta Bena, Mississippi.
Dec 19, 2008 · James Bevel. October 19, 1936 – December 19, 2008. Raised in Itta Bena, Mississippi. As Charlie Cobb remembered, “there was nobody like James Bevel. He was crazy and brilliant, all the same time.”. James Bevel was one of seventeen children born to a sharecropping family in Itta Bena, Mississippi.
Dec 23, 2008 · The Rev. James L. Bevel, an adviser to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. whose influence spurred a pivotal event of the civil rights movement, the “children’s crusade” in Birmingham, Ala.,...