Born Along the Color Line

<p>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.</p>