| LC control no. | n 84129162 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Farmer, James L., Jr. (James Leonard), 1920-1999 |
| Biography/History note | James Farmer Leonard was the founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and father of the Freedom Rides. By the 1960s, Farmer was known as 'one of the Big Four civil rights leaders in the 1960s, together with King, NAACP chief Roy Wilkins and Urban League head Whitney Young'. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1920-01-12 |
| Death date | 1999-07-09 |
| Place of birth | Marshall (Tex.) |
| Place of death | Fredericksburg (Va.) |
| Affiliation | Congress of Racial Equality League for Industrial Democracy Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Lincoln University (Pa.) New York University United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare AFSCME Howard University National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers Labor union members College teachers |
| Found in | Lay bare the heart, 1985: CIP t.p. (James Farmer) LC data base 10-16-84 (hdg.: Farmer, James, 1920- ) Washington Post, July 10, 1999: obituary (James L. Farmer, Jr., civil rights leader, d. July 9, 1999) NUCMC data from Moorland Spingarn Research Center for His Interview, 1968 Sept. 28 (FARMER, James (1920- ); formerly National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)) English Wikipedia website, viewed May 9, 2013 (James Leonard Farmer, Jr. (Jan. 12, 1920--July 9, 1999) was a civil rights activist and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride, which eventually led to the desegregation of inter-state transportation in the U.S.) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Farmer, James; James Leonard Farmer Jr.; organization founder / official, civil rights activist, educator; born 12 January 1920 in Marshall, Texas, United States; enrolled at Howard University in 1938; worked at FOR; cofounded CORE (Committee of Racial Equality); worked as a union organizer for furniture workers in the South (1945); recruited college students for the League for Industrial Democracy, a socialist organization; organized and led strikes for the New York arm of AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees); taught at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and at New York University; appointed as an assistant secretary in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1969); during the 1970s worked with the Council on Minority Planning and Strategy; died 09 July 1999 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States) |
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