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EBOOK Born along the Color Line:The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights M
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199913466
EAN: B63DAA17EB
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Stron: 368
Data wydania: 2012
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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 "e;the        coming leaders of Negro thought."e; 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 African American activists, capturing through the lives of        five extraordinary participants--youth activist Juanita Jackson, diplomat Ralph        Bunche, economist Abram Harris, lawyer Louis Redding, and Harlem organizer Moran        Weston--how this generation shaped the ongoing movement for civil rights during the        Depression, World War II, and beyond. Miller describes how Jackson, Bunche, Harris,        and the others felt that, amidst the global crisis of the 1930s, it was urgent to        move beyond the NAACP's legal and political focus to build an economic movement that        reached across the racial divide to challenge the capitalist system that had        collapsed so devastatingly. They advocated alliances with labor groups, agitated for        equal education, and campaigned for anti-lynching legislation and open access to the        ballot and employment--spreading their influential ideas through their writings and        by mass organizing in African American communities across the country, North and        South. In their arguments and individual awakenings, they formed a key bridge        between the turn-of-the-century Talented Tenth and the postwar civil rights        generation, broadening and advancing the fight for racial equality through the        darkest economic times the country has ever faced.In Born along the Color Line,        Miller vividly captures the emergence of a forgotten generation of African American        leaders, a generation that made Brown v. Board of Education and all that followed        from it possible. It is an illuminating portrait of the "e;long civil rights        movement,"e; not the movement that began in the 1950s, but the one that took on new        life at Amenia in 1933

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