James Bevill was the director of Direct Action and of the Nonviolent Education of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He is credited as having organized the March on Washington and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.
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Montgomery, Alabama
King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Mississippi and Alabama
In the early 1960s Birmingham was the center of the Civil Rights Movement. As a result of the movement many stores in Birmingham were desegregated and job opportunities for African Americans improved.
After a year boycott in Montgomery Alabama the city bus system gave in to allowing bus rider sit any place in bus. The Brown decision, and the 1964 civil rights act.