Color-blind justice: Albion Tourgée and the quest for racial equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson
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Main Author: Elliott, Mark 1969 September 23- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2006
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book
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Item Description: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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-374) and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 388 Seiten)
ISBN:9780195181395

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