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In this brief highlight reel, viewers can a sense of the topics and tones of the oral history interviews done to get a better understanding of his legacy at Mary Washington.

In this oral history interview, Mary Hellen Dellinger speaks about her time in Dr. Farmer's Civil Rights class and his educational legacy at the University.

In this oral history interview Pamela Davis speaks about her time in Dr. Farmer's Civil Rights class and Dr. Farmer's educational legacy at the University.

In this oral history interview, Dr. Jeffrey McClurken of the University of Mary Washington's History and American Studies department about his time in Dr. Farmer's Civil Rights class as well as Dr. Farmer's educational legacy at the University.

The MWC department faculty at Popes Creek around 1992, which is at the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Westmoreland County. The people in the photo, from left to right, are Darryl Nash (adjunct), Otho Campbell, Key Ryang, William…

This collection contains a selection of photographs featuring materials from James L. Farmer, Jr.'s personal papers and UMW’s Office of University Relations & Communications. Farmer was the founder of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), the…

Recording of a lecture from James Farmer’s The Civil Rights Movement in the 20th Century class. Farmer discusses Booker T. Washington (00:00), W.E.B. DuBois (06:55), the struggle against lynching (25:11), the desegregation of schools (29:08), the…

Recording of a lecture from James Farmer’s The Civil Rights Movement in the 20th Century class, Titled 'Lecture 040' in UMW Special Collections. Farmer discusses the nonviolence philosophy in the dominant Civil Rights Movement (0:00), more militant…

In 1987, PBS station WNVT-TV and Mary Washington College partnered to film the James Farmer Reflections series, thirteen of Dr. Farmer’s lectures given when he was Professor of History. These lectures are compiled online by the Special Collections…

This is the official alumni magazine of the Mary Washington College. In the edition, there is a tribute honoring Dr. James Farmer.