[Video, Captioned] James Farmer's Reflections #13

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[Video, Captioned] James Farmer's Reflections #13

title: [Video, Captioned] James Farmer's Reflections #13

creator: WNVT-TV

creator: University of Mary Washington

contributor: Maisano, Francesca

date: 1987

format: MP4

format: 29 min. 08 sec.

type: Moving Image

description: In this lecture, James Farmer discusses what he considered to be a major step forward in the Civil Rights Movement. He created a proposal for Federal funding towards education reform, which would decrease illiteracy across the country. It was created by the collaborative effort of the major Civil Rights leaders under the Center for Community Action Education. Once the Office of Economic Opportunity accepted the proposal, he resigned as national director of CORE and headed the Center for Community Action Education to pursue the illiteracy proposal. However, the media interfered and after internal drama, Farmer states that the education reform eventually “went down the drain, politically.”

publisher: University of Mary Washington

subject: Farmer, James, 1920-1999

subject: Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century

subject: Educational change

subject: Shriver, Sargent, 1915-2011

subject: United States. Office of Economic Opportunity

subject: Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972

relation: [Transcript] James Farmer's Reflections #13

language: English

identifier: reflections_013_captions

rights: This item is in copyright. It is available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Items may not be reproduced or used for any commercial purposes without prior written consent from the University of Mary Washington.

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