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An Army of Lions – The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP: Politics and Culture in Modern America

Autor Shawn Leigh Alexander
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mar 2013
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.
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ISBN-13: 9780812222449
ISBN-10: 081222244X
Pagini: 408
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria Politics and Culture in Modern America


Cuprins

Preface Chapter 1. Aceldama and the Black Response Chapter 2. "Stand Their Ground on This Civil Rights Business" Chapter 3. Interregnum and Resurrection Chapter 4. Not Just "A Bubble in Soap Water" Chapter 5. To Awaken the Conscience of America Chapter 6. Invasion of the Tuskegee Machine Chapter 7. An Army of Mice or an Army of Lions? Chapter 8. "It Is Strike Now or Never" Epilogue List of Abbreviations Notes Index Ac knowledgments

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"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 "With impressive detail, An Army of Lions documents a complex era in African American politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Alexander offers readers invaluable insights into how African American activists responded to the rising violence, disfranchisement, and segregation that characterized the Jim Crow era. Most importantly, he helps us to see how a broad range of early civil rights organizations were vying with one another for national leadership, political access, and mass support."-Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan "Alexander's extremely rich monograph unravels the complex ideological, personal, and institutional features of grassroots African American civil rights organization, leadership, and protest during what historian Rayford W. Logan termed the "nadir" of race relations in the US, the era of Jim Crow... Alexander's great accomplishment is in his digging more deeply into the primary sources-especially newspapers-and in establishing a wider context for early black activist and protest groups that culminated in the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People."-Choice "An Army of Lions should catapult its author, Shawn Leigh Alexander, to the forefront of young scholars of African American history. This brilliant narrative successfully demonstrates that black activists formed national civil rights organizations predating DuBois's Niagara Movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People."-The North Carolina Historical Review "Alexander's major accomplishment is to place Booker T. Washington, seen as a conservative black leader, into a more progressive debate as he was often involved, albeit covertly, with more militant civil rights organizations but was 'locked into maintaining a public stance of accommodation due to his dependence on conservative northern philanthropists and moderate southern whites.'"-American Historical Review

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