James Bevel
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Reverend James Luther Bevel (b. October 19, 1936) is a civil rights leader in the United States, born in Itta Bena, Mississippi. He attended the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee. During the early 1960s Bevel worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was known for his 1963 Children's Crusade, which sparked public outrage over the city of Birmingham, Alabama's violent response to child protest.
Bevel was the founder of the Making of a Man Clinic in 1970, and later the Students for Education and Economic Development.
He was a vice presidential candidate in 1992, running with Lyndon LaRouche.
Today he is the pastor of the Hebraic-Christian-Islamic Assembly in Chicago, Illinois.
