03969nam 2200841Ia 450 991077731840332120230425190813.00-19-771222-30-19-970834-71-280-84544-91-280-87518-697866137164910-19-534617-31-4294-5922-02027/heb06240(CKB)1000000000413454(EBL)415178(OCoLC)191924287(SSID)ssj0000125094(PQKBManifestationID)11141320(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000125094(PQKBWorkID)10026173(PQKB)10993572(SSID)ssj0000633499(PQKBManifestationID)11393594(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000633499(PQKBWorkID)10620894(PQKB)11383977(Au-PeEL)EBL415178(CaPaEBR)ebr10576380(CaONFJC)MIL371649(dli)HEB06240(MiU)MIU01000000000000012845227(MiAaPQ)EBC415178(EXLCZ)99100000000041345420080917d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrColor-blind justice[electronic resource] Albion Tourgee and the quest for racial equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson /Mark ElliotNew York ;Oxford Oxford University Pressc20061 online resource (viii, 388 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-537021-X 0-19-518139-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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, toAlbion Tourgée and the quest for racial equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. FergusonAbolitionistsUnited StatesBiographyNovelists, American19th centuryBiographyLawyersUnited StatesBiographyReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)African AmericansCivil rightsHistory19th centuryUnited StatesRace relationsHistoryAbolitionistsNovelists, AmericanLawyersReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)African AmericansCivil rightsHistory813.4B813/.4 B973.5092Elliott Mark1969 September 23-627816MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777318403321Color-blind justice1214429UNINA