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| Title | : | An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP (Politics and Culture in Modern America) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.87 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081222244X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-28 |
| Language | : | English |
. Shawn Leigh Alexander is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas
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B. Over the next two decades, Fortune and his fellow activists organized, agitated, and, in the process, created the foundation for the modern civil rights movement.An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP traces the history of this first generation of activists and the organizations they formed to give the most comprehensive account of black America's struggle for civil rights from the end of Reconstruction to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. Thomas Fortune stood before a delegation of African American activists in Chicago and declared, "We know our rights and have the courage to defend them," as together they formed the Afro-American League, the nation's first national civil rights organization. Washington, who are viewed through a fresh lens.As Jim Crow curtailed modes of political protest and legal redress, members of the Afro-American League and the organizations that formed in its wake—including the Afro-American Council, the Niagara Movement, the Constitution League, and the Committee of Twelve—used propaganda, moral suasion, boycotts, lobbying, electoral offi
Logan termed the 'nadir' of race relations in the US, the era of Jim Crow. Alexander's account emphasizes both the continuity in rhetorical strategies between the Afro-American Council and the NAACP, and the institutional context from which these continuities emerged. 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. This is a scholarly achievement of the first order, with wide social and political implications today."—David W. Alexander offers readers invaluable insights into how African American activists responded to the rising violence, disfranchisement, and segregation that characterized the Jim Crow era. Alexander's great accomplishment is in his digging more deeply into the primary sources—especially newspapers—and in establishing a wider context for
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