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.