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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Elliott Mark <1969 September 23->
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| Titolo: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 388 pages) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Albion Tourgée and the quest for racial equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Color-blind justice |
| 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 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777318403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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