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Color-blind justice: Albion Tourgée and the quest for racial equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson / Mark Elliott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elliott, Mark, 1969 September 23- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tourgée, Albion W., 1838-1905.
- Tourgée, Albion W.
- Abolitionists--United States--History.
- Abolitionists.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 388 pages)
- Other Title:
- Albion Tourgée and the quest for racial equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Civil War officer, Reconstruction ""carpetbagger,"" best-selling novelist, and relentless champion of equal rights, Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice. Now, in this engaging biography, Mark Elliott offers an insightful portrait of a fearless lawyer, jurist, and writer, who fought for equality long after most Americans had abandoned the ideals of Reconstruction. Elliott provides a fascinating account of Tourgee's life, from his childhood in the Western Reserve region of Ohio (then a hotbed of abolitionism), to his years as a North Carolina judge during Reconstruction, to
- Contents:
- Contents; Note on Usage; Introduction: Albion Tourgée and Color-Blind Citizenship; Part I: The Color-Blind Crusade; 1. Judge Tourgée and the Radical Civil War; Part II: The Radical Advance; 2. The Making of a Radical Individualist in Ohio's Western Reserve; 3. Citizen-Soldier: Manhood and the Meaning of Liberty; 4. A Radical Yankee in the Reconstruction South; 5. The Unfinished Revolution; Part III: The Counterrevolution; 6. The Politics of Remembering Reconstruction; 7. Radical Individualism in the Gilded Age; 8. Beginning the Civil Rights Movement; 9. The Rejection of Color-Blind Citizenship; 10. The Fate of Color-Blind Citizenship.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771222-3
- 0-19-970834-7
- 1-280-84544-9
- 1-280-87518-6
- 9786613716491
- 0-19-534617-3
- 1-4294-5922-0
- OCLC:
- 191924287
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb06240 hdl
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