Fresh Air with Terry Gross, November 8, 1983: Interview with James Farmer.

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(1.) Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) founder James Farmer later served in the Nixon administration, but resigned in frustration. As a civil rights leader, he helped organize the 1961 Freedom Rides. Farmer recalls the role of CORE in relation to other civil rights groups like SNCC, which later expelled white activists, and more militant figures like Malcom X.