His mother was a homemaker and former teacher, while his father was a professor at Wiley College, a historically black college, and a Methodist minister. However, he resigned the next year due to frustration with the bureaucracy and later co-founded 'Fund for an Open Society'.James Farmer co-founded CORE in 1942 and was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride. Farmer thus became one of the most prominent African-American leaders of the era, joining the ranks of figures like Dr. Farmer worked on launching the Freedom Rides with the intention of challenging segregation on intestate bus travel, which had technically been declared illegal in 1946 and which CORE had taken action upon previously.
However, the attempt by James to move his country to absolute Catholicism led to the 1688… By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. At 10, he witnessed his minister father lie to the station manager to secure a train reservation for his Uncle Fred and his family who had come down to visit from New York.A child prodigy, he became a freshman at Wiley College in 1934 at the age of 14.
His attempt to run for Congress on the Republican ticket against Democrat Shirley Chisolm failed in 1968.In 1969, he was appointed the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by newly elected Republican President Richard Nixon.
In 1965, some CORE officials called for America to pull out its troops from Vietnam.
He worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and was one of the 'Big Six' of the Civil Rights Movement who helped organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This article was most recently revised and updated by
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Frances Farmer (1913–1970): American film, television, and theater actress. His father was a minister and college professor and his grandfather had been a slave. James Farmer was suffering from diabetes and possibly cancer when he died on July 9, 1999. James Leonard Farmer Jr. was born on January 12, 1920 in Marshall, Texas, to James L. Farmer Sr. and Pearl Houston. James Farmer, the first director of CORE, was born in Marshall, Texas, on January 12th, 1920. A devotee of Freedom Ride leader James Leonard Farmer Jr. was born on January 12, 1920, in Marshall, Texas. After college, he decided against working in a segregated church and took job with the New York-based pacifist group, Fellowship of Reconciliation, which assigned him to Chicago.While serving as the race relations secretary of FOR (1941-1945), he began to write his 'Provisional Plan for Brotherhood Mobilization', envisioning a movement based on Gandhi's nonviolent principles. On May 14, 1961, James Farmer Sr. passed away from complications related to cancer and diabetes. They thus formed the Committee of Racial Equality, with the name later becoming the Congress of Racial Equality.