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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 2006 © Oxford University Press
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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 his memorable role as lead plaintiff's counsel in the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson. Tourgee's brief coined the phrase that justice should be "color-blind," and his career was one long campaign to made good on that belief. A redoubtable lawyer and an accomplished jurist, Tourgee wrote fifteen political novels, eight books of historical and social criticism, and several hundred newspaper and magazine articles that all told represent a mountain of dissent against the prevailing tide of racial oppression.
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  • 9780195181395 (hardcover)
  • 9780199708345 (ebook)
  • 9780195370218 (paper)
Subject
  • American: 1789-1899
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  • Frontmatter
  • Note on Usage (page ix)
  • Introduction: Albion Tourgée and Color-Blind Citizenship (page 1)
  • Part I The Color-Blind Crusade
    • 1. Judge Tourg#233;e and the Radical Civil War (page 17)
  • Part II The Radical Advance
    • 2. The Making of a Radical Individualist in Ohio's Western Reserve (page 43)
    • 3. Citizen-Soldier: Manhood and the Meaning of Liberty (page 73)
    • 4. A Radical Yankee in the Reconstruction South (page 101)
    • 5. The Unfinished Revolution (page 123)
  • Part III The Counterrevolution
    • 6. The Politics of Remembering Reconstruction (page 165)
    • 7. Radical Individualism in the Gilded Age (page 193)
    • 8. Beginning the Civil Rights Movement (page 231)
    • 9. The Rejection of Color-Blind Citizenship: Plessy v. Ferguson (page 262)
    • 10. The Fate of Color-Blind Citizenship (page 296)
  • Acknowledgments (page 317)
  • Abbreviations (page 321)
  • Notes (page 323)
  • Index (page 375)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MP 106.2 (Nov. 2008): 315-318 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/598561
RAH 35.3 (Sep. 2007): 393-398 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30031621
LHR 28.3 (Aug. 2010): 874-876 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25701166
AHR 112.5 (Dec. 2007): 1545-1546 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40007165
JGAPE 7.3 (Jul. 2008): 377-380 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25144533
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