James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater

by Ben Voth and Ben Voth associate professor com

Book Overview

James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater provides a rhetorical and biographical guide to how the American Civil Rights Movement came into being. It details James Farmer Jr.'s intellectual emergence as a young debater at an HBCU in Marshall, Texas and ultimately chronicles how this led to the emergence of the first non-violent sit-in against segregation in 1942 in Chicago. Farmer was a key founder of the Congress of Racial Equality CORE] that pioneered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498539653
• ISBN13: 9781498539654
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"