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Article: Civil rights leader Farmer dies
- Article from:
- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- July 10, 1999
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FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) - James S. Farmer, a civil rights
pioneer
who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation and
served
alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died Friday. He was 79.
Farmer, who had been in ill health in recent years, died at a
hospital, according to Ron Singleton, a spokesman for Mary
Washington
College where Farmer was a professor.
No further details were available.
"He was an authentic activist willing to challenge obscene laws
and unfair customs through nonviolent direct action," said the Rev.
Joseph Lowery, former head of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference.
"He was an authentic activist. He challenged injustice at its
root," Lowery said. "He was ...