- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with James Farmer
- Creator:
- Farmer, James, 1920-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1981-12-10
- Subject:
- Congress of Racial Equality
Civil rights workers--North Carolina
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina
Civil rights movements--North Carolina
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina
Governors--North Carolina
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Nonviolence--North Carolina
Direct action--North Carolina
Segregation--North Carolina
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina
Race discrimination--North Carolina
North Carolina--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Mass media--North Carolina - People:
- Farmer, James L., Jr. (James Leonard), 1920-1999
Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998 - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Oral history in which James Farmer discusses the history, strategies, and management of CORE, including the Freedom Highways campaign in North Carolina, and discusses Greensboro's role in the civil rights movement. He comments on Meier's and Rudwick's book CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, and recounts some activities of the NAACP, SNCC, SCLC, and Governor Terry Sanford. He mentions the success of nonviolent, direct action in achieving desegregation, assesses local and national media coverage of the movement, and describes his reasons for leaving CORE.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/oh%3A41
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Contributing Institution:
- Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
- Rights:
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