East Texas L I N K S James Leonard Farmer Among the most forgotten of black Texans may well be those who taught at the dozen or more colleges and universities established for African Americans following Reconstruction. One of the best examples of them is James Leonard Maxmillian Farmer, who arrived in Marshall, Texas, in 1919 to take up teaching duties at Wiley College. He was the state's first black Ph.D. Farmer was a theologian, preacher, educator in East Texas. Farmer's son, James Leonard Farmer, Jr., was an icon in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s as the founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). James Farmer, Jr. George Foreman CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS | EMAIL | ACTIVITIES | LINKS © The Center for East Texas Studies Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, Texas U.S.A.