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10 people 10 terms In 1942, Farmer co-founded the Committee of Racial Equality, which later became the [|Congress of Racial Equality] (CORE), an organization that sought to bring an end to [|racial segregation in the United States] through nonviolence. Farmer was the organization's first leader, serving as the national chairman from 1942 to 1944. He was an honorary vice chairman in the [|Democratic Socialists of America].I choose this person because he was inportant to the civil right movement. he was born in marshall texsas.
 * one of da persons i looked up is James Leonard Farmer, Jr.** (January 12, 1920 – July 9, 1999) he was a civil rights activist and leader in the [|American Civil Rights Movement]. He was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 [|Freedom Ride], which eventually led to the desegregation of inter-state transportation in the [|United States].