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- James_Bevel abstract "James Luther Bevel (October 19, 1936 – December 19, 2008) was a leader of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement who, as the Director of Direct Action and Director of Nonviolent Education of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), initiated, strategized, directed, and developed SCLC's three major successes of the era: the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade, the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement, and the 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement. Rev. Bevel also proposed that a March to Washington be taken by the students active in Birmingham, and, when that was no longer needed, suggested that SCLC call for and join a March on Washington later in the year, a gathering which had long been advocated by activists Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph. Bevel later initiated and strategized the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches which led to the Congressional passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.Prior to his time with SCLC, Bevel worked in the Nashville Student Movement, where he participated in the 1960 Nashville Lunch-Counter Sit-Ins, directed the 1961 Open Theater Movement, chose the riders for the 1961 Nashville Student Movement continuation of the Freedom Rides, and initiated and directed the 1961 and '62 voting rights movement in Mississippi. Later, in 1967, Bevel took a leave from SCLC to after being named the chairman of the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam where he directed its anti-Vietnam War movement and initiated and called the 1967 March on the United Nations. His last major action was as co-initiator of the 1995 Day of Atonement/Million Man March. For his work Bevel has been called a father of voting rights, the strategist and architect of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and half of the King/Bevel first-tier team which formulated and communicated many of the strategies and actions which led to historical changes during the 1960s civil rights era.In 2005 Bevel was accused of incest by one of his daughters. He went to trial in April 2008 and, although he denied the charge, Bevel was convicted of unlawful fornication and sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined $50,000. After serving seven months he was freed awaiting an appeal, and died of pancreatic cancer in December 2008. He was buried in a 17-foot canoe in a small country cemetery in Eutaw, Alabama.".
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