James L. Farmer Sr.

He was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and an academic in early religious history as well as theology.

James Leonard Farmer was the son of farm workers and former slaves from Kingstree, South Carolina.

After limited schooling in Georgia and Florida, Farmer gained a scholarship to Boston University.

A proponent of non-violent action, his son James Farmer was a co-founder of the Congress for Racial Equality and helped organize the Freedom Rides of 1961.

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