Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008

found: NUCMC data from Swarthmore College Peace Collection for National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Records, 1966-1969(James Bevel)

found: Biog. index,v. 11 (Bevel, James; Bevel, James L.; Bevel, James Luther; b. 1936)

found: In black and white, 1980(Bevel, Rev. James L.; former SCLC field organizer; leader SCLC Nonviolence Direct Action program; dir. Chicago SCLC operation; co-founder SNCC)

found: New York times WWW site, Dec. 23, 2008(the Rev. James L. Bevel; b. James Luther Bevel, Oct. 19, 1936, Itta Bena, Miss.; d. Friday [Dec. 19, 2008], Springfield, Va., aged 72; adviser to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose influence spurred a pivotal event of the civil rights movement, the "children's crusade" in Birmingham, Ala., but whose reputation was later marred by fringe political associations and a criminal conviction this year [2008] on... charges involving a teenage daughter)

found: African American National Biography, accessed April 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Bevel, James; civil rights activist; born 19 October 1936 in Itta Bena, Mississippi, United States; enrolled at American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee (1957); became a fervent believer in Lawson's teachings, especially with Lawson's use of the Gandhian example; he and his peers formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); also joined other Nashvillians in reviving the Freedom Rides to integrate interstate travel accommodations; was imprisoned in Mississippi; rose quickly in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) becoming by 1963 a member of the executive staff in addition to a field secretary, was named director of direct action (1964); orchestrated the 1963 Children's Crusade march in Birmingham, Alabama; directed the Selma-to-Montgomery March; ran a failed campaign to be the Republican congressman from his Chicago district (1984); died 19 December 2008 in Springfield, Virginia, United States)