Violence

James Bevel: “If you’re not going to respect policemen, you’re not going to be in the movement.”

In Community Organizing, Violence on 12 March 2015 with Comments Off on James Bevel: “If you’re not going to respect policemen, you’re not going to be in the movement.”

A key organizer for King’s SCLC, James Bevel was one of the principal architects of the Birmingham Children’s Crusade, which put hundreds of school kids in the streets in 1963. One way or another he was also involved in most all the major campaigns in the 1960s, including the Freedom Rides, usually recruiting volunteers and […]

Judge Carlton Reeves: Resurrecting the Nightmarish Specter of Lynchings in Mississippi

In Contemporary, Violence on 11 February 2015 with 16 comments

Late one summer night in 2011 in Jackson, Mississippi, James Craig Anderson, an African-American, was set upon in a parking lot by ten white teenagers, beaten and murdered. The gruesome killing was recorded by security cameras, and all ten teenagers, now adults, have pled guilty to various charges. In their pleas they told the court […]

Southern Chivalry Is Not Dead

In Riders on the Rides, Violence on 20 February 2012 with Comments Off on Southern Chivalry Is Not Dead

If Virginia does mandate vaginal ultrasounds be performed on women who want abortions, it will join the ranks of seven other states that currently impose the procedure. Surprise, surprise, five of them are southern — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas — and the other two are southern wannabes — Arizona and Kansas. But then […]