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African American leaders
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Black Lives Matter
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Civil Rights
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CORE [Congress of Racial Equality]
Debate
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James Farmer Jr.
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Malcolm X
Non-violent civil disobedience
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Race
Racism
Rhetoric
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- ISBN 9781498539654
- Weight: 327g
- Dimensions: 153 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 13 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater provides a rhetorical and biographical guide to how the American Civil Rights Movement came into being. It details James Farmer Jr.’s intellectual emergence as a young debater at an HBCU in Marshall, Texas and ultimately chronicles how this led to the emergence of the first non-violent sit-in against segregation in 1942 in Chicago. Farmer was a key founder of the Congress of Racial Equality [CORE] that pioneered the non-violent strategies that would later be used by Martin Luther King. He debated important figures like Malcolm X to provide a powerful advocacy grounded in the praxis of argumentation. Ben Voth demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Farmer’s successful debate methodology in resolving contemporary race problems in the 21st century such as Black Lives Matter.
Ben Voth isassociate professor of corporate communications and public affairs and director of debate at Southern Methodist University.
