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Lay Bare the Heart
Texas native James Farmer is one of the “Big Four” of the turbulent 1960s 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 Martin Luther King Jr., who was deeply influenced by Farmer’s interpretation of Gandhi’s concept of nonviolent protest. Born in Marshall, Texas, in 1920, the son of a preacher, Farmer grew up with segregated movie theaters and “White Only” drinking fountains. This background impelled him to found the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942. That same year he mobilized the first sit-in in an all-white restaurant near the University of Chicago. Under F...
Freedom, When?
Personal views on the Civil Rights struggle by a Negro leader formerly associated with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
James Farmer
Examines the life and career of the black activist.
My Life with the Army in the West
This is the first publication of the memoirs of James E. Farmer who seemed to "go everywhere and do everything" with the Army of the West. He ran away from home at the age of 15 and marched with the 7th U.S. Infantry across Nebraska and Wyoming to be at Camp Floyd in the "Utah War" of 1858. He was later a volunteer aide to Col. J.P. Slough at the Battle of Glorieta, N.M., in the Civil War. he spent years as a sutler, aide, or laborer at such Army posts as Forts Union, Stockton, Concho, Duncan, Dodge, Defiance, Elliott, and others. He was an Indian agent at fort Sill and did railroad work in Montana. At 55, he tried to enlist in the Spanish-American war. Farmer met the colorful figures of his time: Carleton, Carson, Cody, de Smet, Lincoln, Longstreet, Maxwell, Quanah Parker, Shafter, and scores of others. His descriptions and comments add new sidelights on four decades of Western history.
James Farmer Jr.
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.
James Farmer Jr.
This book provides an argumentation study of the life of the "great debater," James Farmer Jr. and analyzes his emergence as a debater in conjunction with the fight for racial equality. It shows how Farmer's rhetoric helped him lead the founding of the American Civil Rights Movement and other key events during this time.
English Pastoral
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient landscape- a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet, by the time James inherited the farm, it was barely recognisable. The men and women had vanished from the fields; the old stone barns had crumbled; the skies had emptied of birds and their wind-blown song. English Pastoral is the story of an inheritance- one that affects us all. It tells of how rural landscapes around the world were brought close to collapse, and the age-old rhythms of work, weather, community and wild things were lost. And yet this elegy from the Lake District fells is also a song of hope- how, guided by the past, one farmer began to salvage a tiny corner of England that was now his, doing his best to restore the life that had vanished and to leave a legacy for the future. This is a book about what it means to have love and pride in a place, and how, against all the odds, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral- not a utopia, but somewhere decent for us all.
Any Fool Can Be a Dairy Farmer
The young James Robertson set out for the beautiful, badger-haunted fields of Devon to turn grass into gold via the medium of milk. It only took an encounter with his first cow to realize that he would need the survival instincts of the SAS if he were to live to appreciate this rural idyll. His cows did not seem to live up to their public image of placid benevolence and created a working environment as ruthless as that of the London advertising agency from which he had escaped. There were cows with sharpshooter hooves; an amorous bull set on enjoying the favors of a neighbor's herd – or even those of the farmer himself, should he turn his back – and the terrible tyranny of a new-born calf. The author’s sharp observations and memory for detail ensure that all these humorous possibilities are fully exploited.
Porch Living
Full-color illustrations accompany decorating tips for porches.
