James L. Farmer, Jr.

James Leonard Farmer Jr. (January 12, 1920 - July 9, 1999) was a one of the "big three" leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

References

"Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement," James Farmer, Penguin-Plume, 1986 ISBN 0-452-25803-0

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There is much discussion by Farmer and Houser on the founding of CORE in several issues of Fellowship magazine of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in 1992 (Spring, Summer and Winter issues) and a conference in October that year, "Erasing the Color Line in the North," on CORE and the origins of the Civil Rights Movement at Bluffton College in Bluffton, Ohio, attended by both Houser and Farmer. Academics and the participants themselves agreed the founders of CORE were Jim Farmer, George Houser and Berniece Fisher. The conference has been preserved on videotape.

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