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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 […]