Born Along the Color Line
Subtitle: The Second Generation of the Talented Tenth and the "Problem of the Twentieth Century"
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780195174557
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.