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The Amenia Conference, 1916
This photograph shows some of the men and women who attended the Amenia Conference in 1916. Included are NAACP activists Addie Hunton, Mary Church Terrell, Mary Talbert (Second row, left to right; 1st, 3rd, and 4th), Arthur Spingarn, William Pickens, and Charles W. Chesnutt (First row, left to right, 1st, 2nd, and 4th). Among the other conferees were Booker T. Washington allies Henry Hunt, Emmet J. Scott, Fred Moore, J. Rosamond Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson (not shown); Miagarites Charles E. Bentley, L.M. Hershaw, and Mason Hawkins (not shown), and educators Kelly Miller and Lucy Laney (Second row, left to right: 5th and 7th). |