[Video, Uncaptioned] James Farmer's Reflections #1

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[Video, Uncaptioned] James Farmer's Reflections #1

title: [Video, Uncaptioned] James Farmer's Reflections #1

creator: WNVT-TV

creator: University of Mary Washington

date: 1987

format: MP4

format: 26 min. 58 sec.

type: Moving Image

description: In this lecture, James Farmer discusses the causes of the American Civil Rights Movement. He credits the Movement’s creation and spread to the importance of television in highlighting the movement; the return of soldiers who fought Hitler’s racist ideology in World War II; Brown vs. The Board of Education; and the emergence of new nations in Africa. In addition, Farmer explains how the movement towards non-violence did not start in the 1960s, but in the 1940s.

publisher: University of Mary Washington

subject: Farmer, James, 1920-1999

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

subject: Nonviolence.

subject: Discrimination in education.

subject: Television.

subject: Africa -- Foreign public opinion, American

relation: [Transcript] James Farmer's Reflections #1

language: English

identifier: reflections_001_uncaptioned

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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