[Transcript] James Farmer's Reflections #2

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[Transcript] James Farmer's Reflections #2

title: [Transcript] James Farmer's Reflections #2

creator: Donahue, Laura

creator: Martz, Michelle

creator: Matthews, Kelsey

creator: Murphy, Caitlin

creator: HIST 421: Adventures in Digital History

date: 2012

format: PDF

format: 9 pgs

type: Text

description: In this lecture, James Farmer explains the beginning of the nonviolence movement to end segregation in the United States. He explains his study of Henry David Thoreau, but more importantly Gandhi and Krishnalal Shridharani, whom Farmer read voraciously. Farmer also tells the story of his first sit-ins with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

publisher: University of Mary Washington

subject: Farmer, James, 1920-1999

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

subject: Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Influence.

subject: Nonviolence.

subject: Sit-ins (Civil Rights)

subject: Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations

relation: [Video] James Farmer's Reflections #2

language: English

identifier: reflections_002_transcript

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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