James Farmer, former head of the Congress of Racial Equality, during a news conference at which Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller praised Mayor John V. Lindsay as a leader, but declined to say whether Lindsay should be appointed to fill the seat of slain Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Farmer's presence fueled speculation that he might be named to fill Kennedy's seat. Rockefeller said Farmer had a good understanding of national problems, but stopped there, New York.

James Farmer (1920-1999) was a Civil Rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation. He served alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. Farmer was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride, which eventually led to the desegregation of interstate transportation in the United States. In 1942, Farmer co-founded the Committee of Racial Equality in Chicago with George Houser and Bernice Fisher. It was later called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and it was dedicated to ending racial segregation in the United States through nonviolence.

On verso: manuscript title and date stamp.

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This object has the following keywords:

• Assassinations
• Civil Rights Movements
• Congress of Racial Equality
• Death
• Injustice
• James Farmer
• James Farmer
• John Lindsay
• Kennedy Family
• Male Portraits
• Nelson Rockefeller
• Press Conferences
• Racial Discrimination
• Robert Kennedy

• Image Dimensions: 7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (19.37 x 24.13 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 10 in. (20.48 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin