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| | Texas State Historical Marker |
 | | James Leonard Farmer, Sr., who normally wrote his name "J. Leonard Farmer" on all of his publications, was born in Kingstree, South Carolina, June 12, 1886. |
 | | His parents, former slaves, were Carolina and Lorena (Wilson) Farmer. |
 | | His son, civil rights leader James Leonard Farmer, Jr., founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), wrote extensively of his father in his own Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement. |
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