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Born along the color line : the 1933 Amenia Conference and the rise of a national civil rights movement / Eben Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Eben.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Economic conditions--20th century.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--History--20th century.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- Redding, Louis L.
- Harris, Abram Lincoln, 1899-1963.
- Harris, Abram Lincoln.
- Jackson, Juanita C.
- Weston, M. Moran, 1910-2002.
- Weston, M. Moran.
- Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971.
- Bunche, Ralph J.
- Amenia Conference (1933).
- Amenia Conference.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 group of Af
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE; 1. Louis Redding's Invitation; 2. Abram Harris and the "Economics of the Race Problem"; PART TWO; 3. At Troutbeck; 4. 69 Fifth Avenue; PART THREE; 5. Juanita Jackson, Leading Negro Youth; 6. In Moran Weston's Harlem; 7. The Question of Ralph Bunche's Loyalty; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-991346-3
- 0-19-025428-9
- 1-283-42819-9
- 9786613428196
- 0-19-993055-4
- OCLC:
- 773937024
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