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   Basketball. FIBA Americas Championship. 1997 Montevideo. National team. James Hubert Farmer (born September 23, 1964) is an American former professional basketball player who was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in the first round (20th pick overall) of the 1987 NBA draft. Farmer, a 6'4" 190 lb small forward, played for the Mavericks, Utah Jazz ...

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   James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967. At age 99, he is both the oldest living ...

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   How did James Farmer become famous?

   • In 1987, Mary Washington College created the James Farmer Scholars program, to encourage minority students to enroll in college. In 1995, the City of Marshall renamed Barney Street, where Farmer grew up, as James Farmer Street in honor of him and his father. In 1998, President Bill Clinton awarded Farmer the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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   Where did James Farmer go to college?

   • James Farmer graduates from Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, with a BS in chemistry. James Farmer graduates from Howard University School of Theology with a bachelor of divinity. Afterward, he moves to Chicago to serve as race relations secretary for the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

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   Why did James Farmer resign?

   • James Farmer is nominated to and accepts a post as assistant secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. James Farmer resigns from his post in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in frustration with bureaucratic delays, opposition to the war in Vietnam, and disappointment with Richard Nixon's record on civil rights.

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   Who is Jim Zwerg?

   • Jim Zwerg was a 21-year-old exchange student from Beloit College in Wisconsin who became active in the Nashville sit-in movement after attending one of James Lawson's workshops on nonviolence. As one of the two whites selected for the May 17 Nashville Movement Freedom Ride, he expected that he would be targeted for violence as a "race traitor."

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   James Farmer, New York, NY Credit: Mississippi Department of Archives & History Co-founder and National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), James "Jim" Farmer was the architect of ...

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   Dec 22, 2021 · SUMMARY. James Farmer was a civil rights leader who pioneered sit-in demonstrations during the 1940s and led the Freedom Riders of 1961. After graduating from Wiley College, in Texas, Farmer moved to Chicago to serve as race relations secretary for the pacifist group Fellowship of Reconciliation. Dedicated to fighting Jim Crow laws, in 1942 ...

6. www.britannica.com › biography › James-FarmerJames Farmer | Civil Rights Leader, Freedom Rider, SNCC

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   Apr 30, 2024 · James Farmer (born January 12, 1920, Marshall, Texas, U.S.—died July 9, 1999, Fredericksburg, Virginia) was an American civil rights activist who, as a leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), helped shape the civil rights movement through his nonviolent activism and organizing of sit-ins and Freedom Rides, which broadened popular support for passage of the Civil Rights and Voting ...

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   Jan 3, 2021 · Jim Farmer Bio – Jim Farmer Wiki. Jim Farmer born James Hubert Farmer, is a retired American professional basketball player who was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in the first round (20th pick overall) of the 1987 NBA draft. Farmer played for the Mavericks, Utah Jazz, Seattle SuperSonics, Philadelphia 76ers, and Denver Nuggets in 5 NBA seasons.