Outlines Demonstration Plans: James Farmer, National Director of the Congress for Racial Equality, notified the Democratic Platform Committee that Civil Rights supporters will demonstrate at the party's national convention next week in Atlantic City. He made the announcement at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington DC, saying that the planned demonstration will be in protest against what he called "the Goldwaterism found in both parties".

James Leonard Farmer Jr. (1920-1999) was a Civil Rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King, Jr." He was the initiator and organizer of the first Freedom Ride in 1961, 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 along with George Houser, James R. Robinson, Samuel E. Riley, Bernice Fisher, Homer Jack, and Joe Guinn. It was later called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and was dedicated to ending racial segregation in the United States through nonviolence. Farmer served as the national chairman from 1942 to 1944. By the 1960s, Farmer was known as "one of the Big Four Civil Rights leaders in the 1960s, together with King, NAACP chief Roy Wilkins and Urban League head Whitney Young."

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This object has the following keywords:

• Atlantic City
• Barry Goldwater
• Civil Rights Movements
• Congress of Racial Equality
• Democratic National Convention
• Democratic Platform Committee
• Demonstrations
• Injustice
• James Farmer
• James Farmer
• Male Portraits
• Racial Discrimination
• Sheraton Park Hotel
• Washington DC

• Image Dimensions: 9 7/16 x 5 3/16 in. (23.97 x 13.18 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/8 in. (25.4 x 20.64 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin