Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Primary Sources 
 

• James Farmer, Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement (1985)

• District of Columbia Marriage Register (1946), Clerk of the Superior Court, Washington, D.C., Records Office

• James Farmer Oral History Interviews, October 1969 and July 20, 1971, transcriptions, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, Texas

• James Leonard, Jr., and Lula Peterson Farmer Papers, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

• James L. Farmer Collection and James L. Farmer Image Collection, both Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia

• James Farmer Lectures, University of Mary Washington, online at jamesfarmerlectures.umwblogs.org (accessed 10 October 2013)

• James L. Farmer FBI File, Federal Bureau of Investigation Vault, online at vault.fbi.gov (accessed 10 October 2013)

• James Farmer, "We Cannot Afford to Fail," New York Times, September 29, 1963

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Secondary Sources 
 

• August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942–1968 (1973)

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Newspapers and Periodicals 
 

• Feature article in Mary Washington Bullet, September 15, 1994

• Washington Post, May 5, 1961; May 16, 1961; July 5, 1961

• Chicago Defender, February 11, 1961; February 15, 1969; December 8, 1970

• New York Times, July 4, 1965; July 26, 1968

• Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 16, 1998

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Obituaries 
 

• Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, July 10, 1999

• New York Times, July 10, 1999

• Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 10, 1999