Lexington Books
Pages: 210
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-3963-0 • Hardback • April 2017 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-3965-4 • Paperback • August 2019 • $50.99 • (£39.00)
978-1-4985-3964-7 • eBook • April 2017 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
Ben Voth isassociate professor of corporate communications and public affairs and director of debate at Southern Methodist University.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction Why James Farmer Jr. Matters Today
Chapter 1. The Family of James Farmer Jr.
Chapter 2. James Farmer Jr. at Wiley College—1934-1938
Chapter 3. The Debate Coach: Melvin Tolson
Chapter 4. From Minister to Advocate Against Segregation
Chapter 5. The first Sit-in— Jack Spratt in 1942
Chapter 6. The Freedom Rides 1961
Chapter 7. The MOW 1963 and Freedom Summer 1964
Chapter 8. Malcolm X and James Farmer Jr.
Chapter 9. Republican for Congress and the Nixon Years
Chapter 10. James Farmer and the Matter of Black Lives Today
Chapter 11. The implications of Farmer Today
Appendix Malcolm X debates James Farmer Jr. at Cornell
References
About the Author
Voth vividly recounts the story of perhaps the greatest forgotten hero of the Civil Rights Movement. This book is an inspiring chronicle of a forgotten legacy, which is unknowingly embedded in the very fabric of the lives of all Americans.
— Christopher Medina, director of debate at Wiley College
James Farmer was considered by many to be the intellectual of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. He was one of those charismatic leaders whose words and actions affected change not only in the United States but also all over the world. Now he’s been largely forgotten, but Ben Voth, in his book, James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater, sheds new light on Farmer and one of the great reasons that he was able to do what he did. It adds new light to Farmer’s enduring legend.
— Gail Beil, Independent researcher
• Winner, Freedoms Foundation George Washington Honor Medal, Public Communications (2018)
• Winner, Benjamin Hook Award
• Winner, Rod Hart Book Award for Political Communication
• Winner, Daniel Rohrer Award for Top Monograph in Forensics