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...father (Harris Malcom), Caleb promises to abide by a spiritual regimen called The Love Dare, in which he'll attempt some act or attitude of kindness toward his estranged wife each day for 40 days. He is encouraged in this by a coworker at the firehouse, Michael (Ken Bevel), who tells him, "Don't follow your heart, man, because your heart can deceive you. Lead your heart." Caleb's father keeps pushing the mission, under an eight-foot cross down by the river bank, and when things get rocky the father tells his wife, "We've got to start praying...
...James Bevel...
...brilliant tactician, Bevel, 71, has remained an activist. He is scheduled to stand trial April 7 for committing incest with one of his daughters when she was a teenager. He says he is not guilty...
...assemble and maintain a novel protest army of polyglot poor people in Washington. He doubted King's white attorney and closest confidant Stanley Levison's analogy with the Bonus Marchers of 1932-34, whose suffering and rejection had kindled delayed support for New Deal initiatives, and King aide James Bevel renewed his attack on the entire calculation. "Aw, that's just a bunch of bulls___," he declared. "We don't need to be hanging around Washington. We need to stop this war." Bevel described Vietnam as a political sickness more deeply rooted than poverty, and his rhetoric bristled with street...
...without him. "He did something I've never heard him do before," Levison confided afterward on his wiretapped phone. "He criticized three members of the staff with his eloquence. And believe me, that's murder. And was very negative." King said Young had given in to doubt, Bevel to brains, and Jackson to ambition. He said they had forgotten the simple truths of witness. He said the movement had made them, and now they were using the movement to promote themselves. He confronted Bevel, who had been a mentor to Jackson and Young, as a genius who flummoxed...