Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998, FTP, identify this recently deceased founder of the Congress of Racial Equality.
In 1942, this man and his newly established civil rights organization implemented the Gandhi-inspired tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience in Chicago, putting it into practice 14 years before Dr. King's Montgomery Bus Boycott.  He was behind bars in Plaquemine, Louisiana, during the March on Washington, so aide Floyd McKissick read his speech.  Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998, FTP, identify this recently deceased founder of the Congress of Racial Equality.
In 1942, this man and his newly established civil rights organization implemented the Gandhi-inspired tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience in Chicago, putting it into practice 14 years before Dr. King's Montgomery Bus Boycott.  
James Farmer