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Born along the Color Line: The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights Movement

By: Eben Miller

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: February 2012

Seller ID: 188437

ISBN: 0195174550

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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 group of ...
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