Posted on November 01st, 2011 in Civil Rights & Protest
James Farmer (1920 – 1999), a principal founder of the Congress of Racial Equality and the last survivor of the “Big Four” who shaped the civil-rights struggle in the United States in the mid-1950′s and 60′s, died Friday, July 9, 1999 at Mary Washington Hospital, in Fredericksburg, Va., where he lived. He was 79. Farmer [...]
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