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21 de dic. de 2008 · James Luther Bevel was born Oct. 19, 1936, in the farming community of Itta Bena, Miss., also the birthplace of Marion Barry, the Washington D.C. Council member and former mayor.
25 de abr. de 2024 · This was the Rev. James Luther Bevel’s suggestion that the campaign recruit students. Since the beginning of the Project C campaign, Bevel and his wife, civil rights activist Diane Nash , had been holding youth meetings every day after school at Birmingham’s St. James Baptist Church, two hours before the movement’s regular meetings.
James Bevel and the Children’s March in Birmingham. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Project C, the ten-week campaign to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, led by Martin Luther King Jr, Fred Shuttlesworth, Wyatt Walker, and James Bevel. The following is a modified excerpt from the book You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can ...
2 de jun. de 2023 · The group documents the stories of the thousands of children known as foot soldiers, including Roby, who participated in the Birmingham movement with the Revs. Martin Luther King, Jr., Fred Shuttlesworth and James Bevel with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). "They taught us about non-violence," Roby says.
14 de oct. de 2020 · James Bevel, a member of SCLC, came up with an idea to include school-age children in protests to help desegregate Birmingham. The strategy involved recruiting popular teenagers from Black high ...
6 de may. de 2015 · A deathbed interview with Rev. James Bevel. As Dr. Martin Luther King's collaborator, Bevel was a key strategist of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. His l...
25. James Bevel renamed the organization the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, recruited members of many diverse groups, and organized the April 15,1967 march from Central Park to the United Nations Building in New York City.
