James Leonard Farmer, Jr., and Lula Peterson Farmer papers

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James Leonard Farmer, Jr., and Lula Peterson Farmer papers

1908,1921-1999

Collection documents the Farmers' professional and personal activities including their involvement in the U. S. civil rights movement. Correspondence, minutes, financial records, and other materials relate to the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the civil rights organization James Farmer founded in 1942. The papers also contain extensive documentation of three organizations Farmer established in the 1960s and 1970s: the Center for Community Action Education, the Council on Minority Planning and Strategy (COMPAS), and the Public Policy Training Institute. In addition, the papers contain material relating to Farmer's unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 1968; his tenure as assistant secretary in the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1969-1970); printed materials on civil rights, education, housing, and labor issues in the 1960s and 1970s; extensive correspondence concerning Farmer's national lecture engagements (1967-1975); Farmer's literary productions; and personal papers relating to the Peterson and Farmer families.

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