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"James Bevel . . . an experienced leader, set 'D-Day' when thousands of children would go to jail." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"They announced this important meeting, and said James Bevel would be speaking that night. James Bevel did speak and everything he said, you know, made sense." —Fannie Lou Hamer
"I was inspired by Jesus, Malcolm X, James Bevel, and Martin Luther King, Jr." —Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
"You were like an angel to me . . . God sent you to me to talk about a day of atonement." —Minister Louis Farrakhan
"The pattern was always the same, first the local minister spoke, then Bevel, and then King . . . Bevel was the most rousing speaker. He was a firebrand and got the audience riled up . . . An orator without peer. —Charles Fager, author
"[James Bevel] could do more with young people than any human being on the face of the earth." —Hosea Williams
"The Bevel story does revise the history of the civil rights movement and it needs to be told." —Robert St. John in a letter to Randy Kryn
"I don't think we would have had a movement without him...He played a very important role, and that role was translated into a successful movement." —Andrew Young, interview with Randy Kryn
"Even the March on Washington was Jim Bevel's idea." —Bernard Lafayette, interview with Randy Kryn
"I'd say 99% of the plans and activities in Selma were Bevel's. The Selma Movement was Bevel's baby." —James Orange, interview with Randy Kryn
"We would have never gone to Selma, and there would not have been a Voting Rights Bill today if James Bevel had not conceived of the idea. . . Jim was the originator of the idea of the march from Selma to Montgomery, Jim Bevel is the author of that. . . Dr. King could not have done the things he did unless he had a James Bevel." —Ralph David Abernathy, interview with Randy Kryn
"He was a great philosopher, an unbelievable philosopher." —Hosea Williams, interview with Randy Kryn
"Bevel was the real creative genius of that period." —Rev. Jesse L. Jackson |
