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30 de abr. de 2024 · James Farmer was a civil rights leader whose nonviolent activism in staging freedom rides and sit-ins was instrumental to the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts.
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6 de mai. de 2024 · James L. Farmer Jr. was a civil rights leader who organized the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Chicago and rode with the Freedom Rides to desegregate bus travel in 1961. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998 and his papers are held by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin.
3 de mai. de 2024 · Civil rights leader James Farmer was born in Marshall, Texas, in 1920. Though he originally planned to become a Methodist minister, the influence of legendary teacher Melvin Tolson—and segregation within the church—led Farmer to activism.
Há 4 dias · Civil rights leader James L. Farmer Jr. was born in Marshall, Texas, in 1920. He spent his childhood in Austin but returned to Marshall to attend Wiley College, where he joined the team of "great debaters" coached by legendary teacher Melvin B. Tolson.
Há 4 dias · James L. Farmer, recorded interview by John F. Stewart, March 10, 1967, (page number), John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program. Subject(s) African Americans and Black Americans
23 de abr. de 2024 · James Farmer and the Freedom Rides more... less... "This interview with civil rights leader James Farmer recalls the Freedom Rides of 1961, when an interracial group rode two buses through the South to test enforcement of recent Supreme Court rulings that banned segregated seating on interstate buses and trains.
Há 18 horas · The ABC has identified James Raptis, a lawyer at Australian Community Media, as being linked to a series of websites that were stealing – and mangling – stories from other sites.
