An army of lions the civil rights struggle before the NAACP /

Alexander, Shawn Leigh.

An army of lions the civil rights struggle before the NAACP / [electronic resource] : Shawn Leigh Alexander. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012. - xviii, 382 p. : ill. - Politics and culture in modern America .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Aceldama and the black response -- "Stand their ground on this civil rights business" -- Interregnum and resurrection -- Not just "a bubble in soap water" -- To awaken the conscience of America -- Invasion of the Tuskegee machine -- An army of mice or an army of lions? -- "It is strike now or never.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780812205725 (electronic bk.)




African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--Civil rights--History--19th century.
Civil rights movements--Civil rights--History--20th century.
African Americans--Politics and government--19th century.
African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.


United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
United States--Race relations--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

E185.61 / .A437 2012

323.1196/073