Born Along the Color Line

Description:

In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered 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. This book narrates how this little-known conference brought together a remarkable young group of African American activists, capturing through the lives of five extraordinary participants - Juanita Jackson, Ralph Bunche, Abram Harris, Louis Redding, and Moran Weston - how this generation shaped the ongoing movement for civil rights during the Depression, World War II, and beyond.

subjects: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,  Civil rights,  Civil rights movements,  Economic conditions,  Amenia Conference (1933),  African Americans,  History,  Bunche, ralph j. (ralph johnson), 1904-1971,  Civil rights movements, united states,  African americans, civil rights,  African americans, history,  African americans, economic conditions,  Amenia Conference (1933) (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95094510 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n95094510