Born along the color line [[electronic resource] ] : the 1933 Amenia Conference and the rise of a national civil rights movement / / Eben Miller
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Miller Eben
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| Titolo: |
Born along the color line [[electronic resource] ] : the 1933 Amenia Conference and the rise of a national civil rights movement / / Eben Miller
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.1196/073 |
| 323.1196073 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century |
| African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century | |
| African Americans - Economic conditions - 20th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Born along the color line |
| ISBN: | 0-19-025428-9 |
| 1-283-42819-9 | |
| 9786613428196 | |
| 0-19-993055-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457443603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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