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Article: A PIONEER REFLECTS ON HISTORY JAMES FARMER DESCRIBES TRIUMPHS, MISSED OPPORTUNITES.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 17, 1999
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Byline: DIANE TENNANT, STAFF WRITER
SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY -- The final book will be called ``An Old Warrior Speaks.''
He sees himself as a warrior but, of course, just in his imagination. Tear gas, or diabetes maybe, took his eyesight years ago.
It was, for sure, the diabetes that took both legs. The blood clot on the brain has claimed some short-term memory.
But when the old warrior speaks, his voice is just as grand, just as rich as it was in the glory days, when James Farmer led the first Freedom Ride for basic human dignity, when he founded the Congress of Racial Equality, when he was one of the ``Big Four'' civil rights leaders.
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