JAMES FARMER



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(A)

After many beatings by mobs and jailings CORE abandoned the Freedom Rides, then SNCC took them over to a successful conclusion..

(B)

He was known as "one of the Big Five civil rights leaders in the 1960s, with ML King, NAACP chief Roy Wilkins , Urban League head Whitney Young and A.P. Randolph of the Pullmans Porter Union..

(C)

Inspired by theology professor Howard Thurman, at Howard University, Farmer he became interested in Gandhi-style pacifism later followed by ML King..

(D)

He / CORE, was initiated to pressure the government to enforce the Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia, 1960 that declared segregated interstate bus travel to be unconstitutional.

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