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The Amenia Conference Pamphlet
In 1916, one year after the death of Booker T. Washington, the NAACP issued a call for a conference of black leaders to unite Washington's supporters and NAACP activists behind a common program. W.E.B. DuBois and Joel Spingarn held the conference August 24-26, at Troutbeck, Spingarn's estate near Amenia, New York. The roughly fifty conferees adopted a "United Platform" that affirmed all forms of education for blacks and political freedom. The Amenia Conference marked the NAACP's ascent as the dominant force in the civil rights movement. |