# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-l-farmer-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:58:15.403Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-l-farmer-jr"
name: "James L. Farmer, Jr."
slug: "james-l-farmer-jr"
description: "James Leonard Farmer Jr. was an American civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement \"who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr.\" In 1942 he was a co-founder of what became known as CORE, or the Congress of Racial Equality. He was the initiator and organizer of the first Freedom Ride in 1961, which eventually led to the desegregation of interstate transportation in the United States."
tagline: "African Americans' rights activist (1920-1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_L_Farmer_Jr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1920-01-12"
deathDate: "1999-07-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.723948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "جیمز فارمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B1_(%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A)"
    title: "جيمس فارمر (سياسي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Farmer_(B%C3%BCrgerrechtler)"
    title: "James Farmer (Bürgerrechtler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Farmer"
    title: "James Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Farmer"
    title: "James Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Farmer"
    title: "James Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Farmer%2C_Jr."
    title: "James L. Farmer, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%A8"
    title: "ג'יימס פארמר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Farmer"
    title: "James Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Farmer"
    title: "James L. Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Farmer"
    title: "James Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3806642"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump