Shawn Leigh Alexander: 2 books
W. E. B. Du Bois
An American Intellectual and Activist
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most prolific African American authors, scholars, and leaders of the twentieth century, but none of his previous biographies have so practically and comprehensively introduced the man and his impact on American history as noted historian Shawn Alexander's W. E. B. Du...
An Army of Lions
The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
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....