For King, his fellow leaders James Lawson, James Bevel, Diane Nash, and the people around them, this meant studying how to apply the methods of confrontational nonviolence—and also studying the ...

Organized by the Rev. James Bevel of the Southern Christian Leadership Council and assisted by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the campaign aimed to register Black voters.

Jackson was 26. Angered by the killing, James Bevel of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference broached the idea of carrying Jackson’s casket to the capitol steps to make a statement ...

These young protestors weren’t just brave—they were trained in nonviolent resistance by civil rights leaders James Bevel and Diane Nash. Bevel and Nash understood something profound—the ...

His Oscar came for Best Original Song “Glory,” which he penned for the film Selma, in which he also co-starred as civil rights leader James Bevel. He also shared a songwriting nom with Diane W ...

The album dropped the same time that she played Mahalia Jackson in the film Selma, a film based on the voting rights marches in Alabama led by Martin Luther King Jr. and James Bevel. She was ...

Over several months, workshop attendees — largely young students including people who would become central figures in the civil rights movement such as Diane Nash, John Lewis and James Bevel — were ...

Aug. 28 was the 61st anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his inspiring “I Have a Dream” speech. It was also the 69th ...

The leaders of the Nashville sit-in movement, including the late Congressman John Lewis, Diane Nash, James Bevel, C.T. Vivian and Bernard Lafayette, went on to spread the gospel of nonviolence ...

Among Lawson’s trainees were John Lewis, C.T. Vivian, Bernard Lafayette and James Bevel. But their activism came with a cost. Not only were protesters maliciously harassed and assaulted by white ...

and the Rev. James Bevel, right, now of Cleveland, Miss., talk on the street during demonstrations in Birmingham, Ala., May 7, 1963. “When all kinds of people in the United States become human ...