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An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP

By Shawn Leigh Alexander
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By Shawn Leigh Alexander
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In January 1890, journalist T. 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. 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.

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