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In this March 14, 1969 article in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, student writer Jean Parvin reportson the visit by James Farmer to the college. Farmer was Assistant Secretary of the Health, Education, and Welfare Department under the Nixon Administration and was one of the founding members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Farmer's talk focused on issues of race in America and his desire for the future of race-relations, "not color blindness, but color conscience to eliminate color inequality."