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Lay bare the heart : an autobiography of the civil rights movement

Farmer, James, 1920-1999.

Synopsis:

In 1942 James Farmer was the founder of the Congress for Racial Equality. His work in organizing sit-ins at all white restaurants in Chicago, the founding of CORE, and his influence on Martin Luther King, Jr. regarding Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence laid the foundation for the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.