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



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Autore: Elliot Mark Visualizza persona
Titolo: Color-blind justice [[electronic resource] ] : Albion Tourgee and the quest for racial equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson / / Mark Elliot Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
Disciplina: 813.4B
813/.4 B
973.5092
Soggetto topico: Abolitionists - United States
Novelists, American - 19th century
Lawyers - United States
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations History
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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 Citizenship10. The Fate of Color-Blind Citizenship; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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
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ISBN: 0-19-970834-7
1-280-84544-9
1-280-87518-6
9786613716491
0-19-534617-3
1-4294-5922-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450865003321
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