Community Organizing

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 […]

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 […]

Jesse Harris, 1940-2015

In Community Organizing, Obituaries, Oral History, Parchman on 31 January 2015 with Comments Off on Jesse Harris, 1940-2015

Jesse Harris was one of the many Riders from Jackson, Mississippi, a newcomer to the movement who got his first education in nonviolence while locked up in Parchman with the likes of James Farmer, John Lewis and Bernard Lafayette. Civil Rights would become his life for the next ten years. After the Rides, Jesse worked […]