Carpetbagger's Crusade The Life of Albion Winegar Tourgée / by Otto H. Olsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsen, Otto H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourgee, Albion W., 1838-1905.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 395 p.) illus., facsims., ports.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press 2019

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1965.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1965. The Supreme Court's momentous school desegregation decision of 1954 was a postmortem victory for Albion Tourgée. Just fifty-eight years earlier this once-famous carpetbagger's attack on segregation was crushed in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. His legal defeat in 1896 typified his frustrated but prophetic career. Tourgée was an idealistic Union veteran who ventured south in 1865. As an advocate of civil rights, political equality, free schools, and penal reform, he was elected to North Carolina's Constitutional Convention of 1868. Olsen records both the fierce struggles and the impressive accomplishments that filled Tourgée's fourteen years in the South. With the collapse of the Southern experiment, Tourgée was inspired to turn to fiction to express his convictions. A Fool's Errand by One of the Fools and Bricks without Straw were classics of their day, providing absorbing accounts and defenses of radical Reconstruction. In 1879 Tourgée went north, where he renewed and extended his crusade for Negro equality by writing, lecturing, and lobbying. For many years he was the most militant and persistent advocate of racial equality in the nation. He was also a vigorous critic of the industrial age, demanding the utilization of federal power in behalf of equality, democracy, and economic justice.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Preface

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. A Yankee Youth

II. Liberty, Union, and War

III. South to Emancipation

IV. White Man's Politics

V. Entering the Vortex

VI. For the Straitest Sect

VII. A Maverick Republican

VIII. Campaigning for Reconstruction-1867

IX. The Reconstruction Convention of 1868

X. Continued Triumph

XI. A Code Commissioner

XII. A Carpetbagger Judge and the Ku Klux Klan

XIII. The Klan and Republican Collapse

XIV. Portrait of a Carpetbagger

XV. A Tale of Redemption

XVI. Tourgée and the Settlement of 1875

XVII. The Final Blows

XVIII. A Fool's Errand By One of the Fools

XIX. "Let There Be Light

XX. The Continent Disaster

XXI. Recovering at Thorheim

XXII. The Bystander

XXIII. Commitment Deferred

XXIV. The National Citizens Rights Association

XXV. Last Errands-The Basis and Bordeaux

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

"Bibliography of Tourgee's writings": p. 355-362. "General bibliography": p. 363-382.

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ISBN:

0-8018-0499-X

1-4214-3055-X

OCLC:

1131806048