03049nam 2200637Ia 450 991077880780332120230725054417.00-19-991346-30-19-025428-91-283-42819-997866134281960-19-993055-4(CKB)2550000000079541(EBL)834713(OCoLC)773937024(SSID)ssj0000589078(PQKBManifestationID)12227962(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000589078(PQKBWorkID)10651570(PQKB)11628302(StDuBDS)EDZ0001035177(MiAaPQ)EBC834713(Au-PeEL)EBL834713(CaPaEBR)ebr10524933(CaONFJC)MIL342819(EXLCZ)99255000000007954120110328d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBorn along the color line[electronic resource] the 1933 Amenia Conference and the rise of a national civil rights movement /Eben MillerOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20111 online resource (368 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-517455-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; YIn 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 AfCivil rights movementsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansEconomic conditions20th centuryCivil rights movementsHistoryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistoryAfrican AmericansEconomic conditions323.1196/073323.1196073Miller Eben1506349MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778807803321Born along the color line3736555UNINA