James Leonard Farmer Jr.

Arrest Date	Multiple arrests
Arrest Location	Multiple locations, including Parchman Farm, Mississippi
Charge	Co-founder of CORE. Freedom Rider. Sentenced to Parchman Farm.

Historical Record

James Farmer co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1942 and organized the original Freedom Rides in 1961. Arrested and sent to Parchman Farm, Farmer refused to accept bail — turning his imprisonment into a strategic asset. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998.

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The full Good Trouble profile for James Leonard Farmer Jr. — including sourced archival photography, expanded biographical history, and complete arrest record — is in development. This page will be updated as the archive grows.

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