# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-bevel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:10:32.514Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-bevel"
name: "James Bevel"
slug: "james-bevel"
description: "James Luther Bevel was an American minister and a leader and major strategist of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. As a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and then as its director of direct action and nonviolent education, he initiated, strategized, 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. Bevel suggested that SCLC call for and join a March on Washington in 1963 and strategized the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches which contributed to Congressional passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act."
tagline: "1960s Civil Rights Movement strategist (1936–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rev.Jim_Bevel_003.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1936-10-19"
deathDate: "2008-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.812862666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump