Page 1. Letter (4/26/61) from James Farmer to President Kennedy about the upcoming Freedom Ride, "designed to forward the completion of integrated bus service and accommodations in the Deep South"-- plus attached pages identifying participants, travel itinerary and origins and purpose of Freedom Ride. (1 page) 

Page 2. Attachment: List of Freedom Ride participants. (1 page) 

Page 3. Attachment: Freedom Ride itinerary. (1 page) 

Page 4. Attachment: statement of Freedom Ride's purpose. (1 page) 

Page 5, 6, 7, and 8. Telegram (5/14/61) from James Farmer to the President: "TODAY A GREYHOUND BUS TRAVELING FROM ATLANTA TO BIRMINGHAM WAS AMBUSHED OUTSIDE OF ANNISTON ALABAMA BY FIFTY WHITE MEN, ITS TIRES SLASHED, WINDOWS SMASHED, TEAR GAS HURLED INSIDE AND THE BUS FINALLY SET AFIRE AND GUTTED BY FLAMES." (4 pages) 

Page 9 and 10. Letter (6/20/62) from James Farmer to JFK, informing the President of plans for an upcoming campaign by CORE to eliminate segregation in facilities serving interstate travelers in private automobiles.  (2 pages) 

Page 11. Telegram (9/28/62) from James Farmer to JFK, expressing support by CORE of the President’s efforts to enforce federal law in Mississippi and urging him to personally escort James Meredith to his classes at the university. (1 page) 

Page 12. Telegram (5/3/63) from James Farmer to the President deploring arrest and harsh treatment of peaceful protesters in Birmingham, Alabama. (1 page) 

Page 13. Telegram (5/8/63) from James Farmer to JFK regarding the civil rights conflict in Birmingham: "EVEN IF GUNS OF ALABAMA SUCCEED IN QUELLING NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE IN BIRMINGHAM IT WILL RISE UP AGAIN IN PLACE AFTER PLACE UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OVERCOMES HIS FEAR OF SPEAKING OUT AND DECIDES TO ACT FORCEFULLY TO SECURE FREEDOM OF NEGRO AMERICANS." (1 page)