Posted in 1900s, Great Lives, Spotsylvania, Buildings on Apr 18th, 2008 Comments Off
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James Farmer, Civil Rights Leader E-113 James Leonard Farmer was born in Texas on 12 Jan. 1920. In 1942, he and other Civil Rights leaders founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Chicago. CORE used Gandhi-inspired tactics of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest discriminatory practices against blacks. Under Farmer’s leadership, in […]
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Posted in 1900s, Great Lives, Spotsylvania, Buildings, Shannon on Apr 18th, 2008 Comments Off
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James Farmer, Civil Rights Leader E-113 James Leonard Farmer was born in Texas on 12 Jan. 1920. In 1942, he and other Civil Rights leaders founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Chicago. CORE used Gandhi-inspired tactics of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest discriminatory practices against blacks. Under Farmer’s leadership, in […]
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