Background
James Leonard Farmer was the son of farm workers and former slaves from Kingstree, South Carolina. His father was Carolina and his mother Lorena (Wilson) Farmer.
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James Leonard Farmer
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Education
Boston University.
Career
After limited schooling in Georgia and Florida, Farmer gained a scholarship to Boston University. He earned his bachelor, masters of theology, and doctoral degrees at this institution. Farmer had a dual career as a minister and an academic.
He taught and mentored as a professor at several historically black colleges and universities in the South, including Huston-Tillotson and Wiley colleges in Texas.
Rust College in Mississippi. And most notably Howard University in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1939 to 1946, returning to Texas to Huston as dean until his retirement in 1956.
During this period, he served as an administrator as well as a professor Aspects of Farmer, Senior"s life are chronicled in the film The Great Debaters (2007), in which the minister is played by Forest Whitaker.
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Died
March 14, 1961 (aged 64) -
Nationality
American