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Klappentext An Army of Lions The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP Shawn Leigh Alexander "An Army of Lions is a stunning and heroic work of research about one of the great 'origins' stories of American history. With remarkable originality, Alexander illuminates the grassroots civil rights organizations, leadership, and strategies in the nineteenth century, well before we typically think about those efforts. In the hands of this very talented historian, we see that T. Thomas Fortune and others struggled with the same questions that occupied the later generations of Du Bois and King. This is a scholarly achievement of the first order, with wide social and political implications today."--David W. Blight, author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era Shawn Leigh Alexander is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. Politics and Culture in Modern America 2011 | 408 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-4375-8 | Cloth | $49.95s | �.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-2244-9 | Paper | $27.50s | �.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-0572-5 | Ebook | $27.50s | �.00 World Rights | American History, Law, Public Policy Short copy: In 1890, a delegation of African American activists formed the Afro-American League, the nation's first national civil rights organization. Over the course of nearly two decades, these activists fought to end disfranchisement and segregation, and to contest racial violence, creating the foundation for the NAACP and the modern civil rights movement. Zusammenfassung In 1890, a delegation of African American activists formed the Afro-American League, the nation's first national civil rights organization. Over the course of nearly two decades, these activists fought to end disfranchisement and segregation, and to contest racial violence, creating the foundation for the NAACP and the modern civil rights movement.
