Friday, December 19, 2008

Curtailed Bevel-aqua

Or
Funeral March
James Bevel, whose guiding hand helped lead the Civil Rights movement, then landed him in prison when it ended up in his daughters’ pants, has died at the age of 72. Bevel was the Director of Direct Action and Director of Nonviolent Education of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and 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, as well as being involved in the 1963 March on Washington, and the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery. He left the SCLC to direct the anti-Vietnam War Movement, then stayed out of the limelight until he ran as Lyndon LaRouche’s vice presidential candidate in 1992. He apparently left the organizing business until helping put together the Million Man March in 1995. Unfortunately, it later turned out that he was organizing much smaller events in the 1990s– him and 4 of his daughters in the Daddy’s Special Secret Club, for which he was convicted in April 2008, because, ironically, Virginia has no statute of limitations on incest.

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