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Author Miller, Eben

Title Born along the color line : the 1933 Amenia Conference and the rise of a national civil rights movement / Eben Miller
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Contents Louis Redding's invitation -- Abram Harris and the "economics of the race problem" -- At Troutbeck -- 69 Fifth Avenue -- Juanita Jackson, leading Negro youth -- In Moran Weston's Harlem -- The question of Ralph Bunche's loyalty
Summary In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization. In Amenia, such old lions as the 65 year-old W.E.B. DuBois would mingle with "the coming leaders of Negro thought." It was a fascinating encounter that would transform the civil rights movement. With elegant writing and piercing insight, historian Eben Miller narrates how this little-known conference brought together a remarkable young gro
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Subject Redding, Louis L
Harris, Abram Lincoln, 1899-1963.
Jackson, Juanita C
Weston, M. Moran, 1910-2002.
Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971.
Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971
Harris, Abram Lincoln, 1899-1963
Jackson, Juanita C.
Redding, Louis L.
Weston, M. Moran, 1910-2002
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- History -- 20th century
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
SUBJECT Amenia Conference (1933) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95094510
Amenia Conference fast
Subject Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Economic conditions
Civil rights movements
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199930555
0199930554
9780190254285
0190254289