{"product_id":"9781498539647","title":"James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater","description":"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 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century such as Black Lives Matter.","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158070280432,"sku":"9781498539647","price":80.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781498539647","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}