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James L. Farmer Jr.

Jul 24, 2020

Mary Washington renames academic hall for civil rights leader James Farmer

The University of Mary Washington Board of Visitors voted Friday to change the name of an academic building to James Farmer Hall, after James L. Farmer Jr., the civil rights activist who planned the first Freedom Riders protest in 1961 through the South, desegregating buses and encountering violence. Farmer, a native of Texas who lived […]

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