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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 21 > James Bevel was influential MLK aide

James Bevel was influential MLK aide

Ordained minister later convicted on incest charges

By Alexander Remington / The Bulletin
December 21, 2008

WASHINGTON — The Rev. James Bevel, a fiery top lieutenant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a force behind civil rights campaigns of the 1960s whose erratic behavior and conviction on incest charges tarnished his legacy, died in Virginia on Friday of pancreatic cancer. He was....

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