Archive for February 2015

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 […]

James Bevel: Why the Children Did Lead Us

In Community Organizing, Oral History on 5 February 2015 with Comments Off on James Bevel: Why the Children Did Lead Us

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 […]