James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater

Awards:   Winner of Benjamin Hook Award. Winner of Daniel Rohrer Award for Top Monograph in Forensics. Winner of Freedoms Foundation George Washington Honor Medal, Public Communications 2018 Winner of Rod Hart Book Award for Political Communication at NCA.
Author:   Ben Voth
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781498539630


Pages:   212
Publication Date:   13 April 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Awards

  • Winner of Benjamin Hook Award.
  • Winner of Daniel Rohrer Award for Top Monograph in Forensics.
  • Winner of Freedoms Foundation George Washington Honor Medal, Public Communications 2018
  • Winner of Rod Hart Book Award for Political Communication at NCA.

Overview

James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater provides a rhetorical and biographical guide to how the American Civil Rights Movement came into being. It details James Farmer Jr.’s intellectual emergence as a young debater at an HBCU in Marshall, Texas and ultimately chronicles how this led to the emergence of the first non-violent sit-in against segregation in 1942 in Chicago. Farmer was a key founder of the Congress of Racial Equality [CORE] that pioneered the non-violent strategies that would later be used by Martin Luther King. He debated important figures like Malcolm X to provide a powerful advocacy grounded in the praxis of argumentation. Ben Voth demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Farmer’s successful debate methodology in resolving contemporary race problems in the 21st century such as Black Lives Matter.

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Author:   Ben Voth
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781498539630


ISBN 10:   1498539637
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   13 April 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Voth vividly recounts the story of perhaps the greatest forgotten hero of the Civil Rights Movement. This book is an inspiring chronicle of a forgotten legacy, which is unknowingly embedded in the very fabric of the lives of all Americans. -- Christopher Medina, Wiley College James Farmer was considered by many to be the intellectual of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. He was one of those charismatic leaders whose words and actions affected change not only in the United States but also all over the world. Now he's been largely forgotten, but Ben Voth, in his book, James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater, sheds new light on Farmer and one of the great reasons that he was able to do what he did. It adds new light to Farmer's enduring legend. -- Gail Beil, Local Historian


Voth vividly recounts the story of perhaps the greatest forgotten hero of the Civil Rights Movement. This book is an inspiring chronicle of a forgotten legacy, which is unknowingly embedded in the very fabric of the lives of all Americans. -- Christopher Medina, Wiley College


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Ben Voth is associate professor of corporate communications and public affairs and director of debate at Southern Methodist University.

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