Ben Voth

James Farmer Jr. (eBook, ePUB)

The Great Debater

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater provides a rhetorical and biographical guide to how the American Civil Rights Movement came into being. It details James Farmer Jr.'s intellectual emergence as a young debater at an HBCU in Marshall, Texas and ultimately chronicles how this led to the emergence of the first non-violent sit-in against segregation in 1942 in Chicago. Farmer was a key founder of the Congress of Racial Equality [CORE] that pioneered the non-violent strategies that would later be used by Martin Luther King. He debated important figures like Malcolm X to provide a powerful advocacy grounded in the praxis of argumentation. Ben Voth demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Farmer's successful debate methodology in resolving contemporary race problems in the 21st century such as Black Lives Matter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498539647
• Artikelnr.: 48144415

Autorenporträt

Ben Voth is professor of rhetoric and director of debate and speech programs at Southern Methodist University, USA. As a collegiate speech and debate director he has coached more than five world champions, more than thirty national champions, and more than fifty state champions in speech and debate competitions over the past thirty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Why James Farmer Jr. Matters
Today Chapter 1. The Family of James Farmer Jr. Chapter 2. James Farmer Jr.
at Wiley College-1934-1938 Chapter 3. The Debate Coach: Melvin Tolson
Chapter 4. From Minister to Advocate Against Segregation Chapter 5. The
first Sit-in- Jack Spratt in 1942 Chapter 6. The Freedom Rides 1961 Chapter
7. The MOW 1963 and Freedom Summer 1964 Chapter 8. Malcolm X and James
Farmer Jr. Chapter 9. Republican for Congress and the Nixon Years Chapter
10. James Farmer and the Matter of Black Lives Today Chapter 11. The
implications of Farmer Today Appendix Malcolm X debates James Farmer Jr. at
Cornell References About the Author