Topic: James Farmer
The State of Texas went so far as to pass laws forbidding the showing of films in Texas documenting what occurred. Doris Miller-This young man from Texas served as a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia, stationed at Pearl Harbor. James ...
July 9, 1999, Fredericksburg, Virginia), American civil rights activist who, as a leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), helped shape the civil rights movement through his nonviolent activism and organizing of sit-ins and Freedom Rides, which broadened popular support for ...
The March on Washington, August 28, 1963, was the largest civil rights demonstration the nation had ever witnessed. The March for Jobs and Freedom was conceived by A. Philip Randolph, leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, coordinated by Bayard Rustin ...
The Great Debaters has its strengths, including a smooth performance from Washington and a deeper one from Forest Whitaker, who plays the less confrontational James Farmer Sr., a Wiley professor of theology. The professor's 14-year-old son, James Farmer Jr., is one ...