He retired in 1996. Co-founder and National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), James "Jim" Farmer was the architect of the original CORE Freedom Ride of 1961. He saw the ...
the Freedom Rides, and a decade of brushes with lynching and murder--all this possibly the heyday of CORE, nonviolence, and James Farmer. In those simpler days, before urban riots and black power ...
Charles Person, the youngest of the original 13 Freedom ... Rides." In the nation's capital in 1961, he underwent 12 days of intense training in nonviolent resistance under the leadership of James ...
He retired in 1996. Co-founder and National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), James "Jim" Farmer was the architect of the original CORE Freedom Ride of 1961. He saw the ...