Tag Archives: James Farmer

Civil Rights Leader James Farmer’s UMW Lectures Online

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Reverend

More than five years ago I started working with UMW’s archivist Carolyn Parsons to try and digitize James Farmer’s video lecture series recorded here at UWM in 1983. The lecture series was pretty awesome, and it basically revolved around James … Continue reading →

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Marking Digital History at UMW

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Reverend

Jeff McClurken’s Adventure’s in Digital History seminar is (or is it “was” now?) a pretty amazing thing. The driving logic of the course was that four distinct projects, each dealing with a unique facet of local history, were be framed … Continue reading →

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James Farmer and the Great Debaters

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Reverend

James L. Farmer, Jr. was a major figure in the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. He was a renowned orator, one of the founders of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), organized the first sit-ins, and was … Continue reading →

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