Farmer, James L., Jr. (James Leonard), 1920-1999 - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress

found: Lay bare the heart, 1985:CIP t.p. (James Farmer)

found: LC data base 10-16-84(hdg.: Farmer, James, 1920- )

found: Washington Post, July 10, 1999:obituary (James L. Farmer, Jr., civil rights leader, d. July 9, 1999)

found: NUCMC data from Moorland Spingarn Research Center for His Interview, 1968 Sept. 28(FARMER, James (1920- ); formerly National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE))

found: English Wikipedia website, viewed May 9, 2013(James Leonard Farmer, Jr. (Jan. 12, 1920--July 9, 1999) was a civil rights activist and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride, which eventually led to the desegregation of inter-state transportation in the U.S.)

found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Farmer, James; James Leonard Farmer Jr.; organization founder / official, civil rights activist, educator; born 12 January 1920 in Marshall, Texas, United States; enrolled at Howard University in 1938; worked at FOR; cofounded CORE (Committee of Racial Equality); worked as a union organizer for furniture workers in the South (1945); recruited college students for the League for Industrial Democracy, a socialist organization; organized and led strikes for the New York arm of AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees); taught at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and at New York University; appointed as an assistant secretary in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1969); during the 1970s worked with the Council on Minority Planning and Strategy; died 09 July 1999 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States)