Author:Eben Miller
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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.
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