2004Peace &amp ChangeRequires access

The“Two‐ness”of the Movement: James Farmer, Nonviolence, and Black Nationalism

Leilah Danielson

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This essay examines the evolving racial and pacifist politics of civil rights leader James Farmer in order to challenge the tendency within civil rights scholarship to dichotomize the movement between nonviolence and violence, and between interracialism and Black Power.

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This essay examines the evolving racial and pacifist politics of civil rights leader James Farmer in order to challenge the tendency within civil rights scholarship to dichotomize the movement between nonviolence and violence, and between interracialism and Black Power.

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This essay examines the evolving racial and pacifist politics of civil rights leader James Farmer in order to challenge the tendency within civil rights scholarship to dichotomize the movement between nonviolence and violence, and between interracialism and Black Power.

Key concepts: Black Power, Civil rights, Nationalism, Scholarship, Power (physics), Politics, Movement (music), Political science

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