Color-blind justice [[electronic resource] ] : Albion Tourgee and the quest for racial equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson / / Mark Elliot

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824634803321
• Autore: Elliott Mark <1969 September 23->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2006
• 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
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 388 pages)
• Disciplina: 813.4B; 813/.4 B; 973.5092
• Soggetti: Abolitionists - United States; Novelists, American - 19th century; Lawyers - United States; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century; United States Race relations History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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