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James Bevel:
James Bevel, one of 17 children born to a family of Mississippi sharecroppers, was one of the student movement's most influential tacticians. A Baptist minister who wore a yamulke, Bevel was both charismatic and eccentric. He helped found SNCC at age 23 as a student at the American Baptist Theological Seminary. In 1963, he organized the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Ala. |