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

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Author / Creator:Farmer, James, 1920-1999.
Imprint:Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, [1998]
Description:1 online resource (370 pages)
Language:English
Series:Sixties--primary documents and personal narratives, 1960-1974.
Subject:Farmer, James, -- 1920-1999.
Farmer, James, -- 1920-1999
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
African American civil rights workers.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Civil rights workers.
United States.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11115381
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ISBN:0585395675
9780585395678
0875651887
9780875651880
Notes:Originally published: New York : Arbor House, 1985.
Includes index.
Print version record.
Summary:"Texas native James Farmer was one of the "Big Four" leaders of the civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young. Farmer might be called the forgotten man of the movement, overshadowed by King, who was deeply influenced by Farmer's application of Ghandi's principles of nonviolent protest. Born in Marshall, Texas, in 1920, Farmer was the founding director of the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942. Under Farmer's direction, CORE set the pattern for the Civil Rights movement by organizing sit-ins and peaceful protests, beginning with a 1942 sit-in at a coffee shop in the University of Chicago area. In Lay Bare the Heart Farmer tells the story of the heroic civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. This moving and unsparing personal account captures both the inspiring strengths and human weaknesses of the movement."--Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Farmer, James, 1920- Lay bare the heart. Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, [1998] 0875651887