Download or read book An Army of Lions written by Shawn Leigh Alexander and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title traces the history of the civil rights activists and the organizations they formed to give the most comprehensive account of black America's struggle for civil rights from the end of Reconstruction to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.