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 […]
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 […]
Posted in Great Lives, Spotsylvania, Civil War, Shannon on Apr 15th, 2008 Comments Off
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Gaspar Tochman JJ-25 A mile south is the unmarked grave of Gaspar Tochman (1797-1880), a major in the Polish army who participated in the failed 1830 revolt against Russia. Exiled, in 1837 he immigrated to the United States, where he practiced law, wrote, and lectured. During the Civil War he recruited the Polish […]
Posted in Stafford, Great Lives, Civil War, Jennifer on Apr 9th, 2008 Comments Off
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Nearby to the northwest is the childhood home of renowned abolitionist, writer, and lecturer Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907). In 1838 his family moved into this Federal-style house. Conway graduated from Dickinson College in 1849 and Harvard Divinity School in 1854 and became outspoken in the abolitionist movement. During the Civil War, Conway […]