Color-Blind Justice : Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson: Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. FergusonOxford University Press, USA, 2006年11月9日 - 400 頁 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. Through the lens of Tourgee's life, Elliott illuminates the war of ideas about race that raged through the United States in the nineteenth century, from the heated debate over slavery before the Civil War, through the conflict over aid to freedmen during Reconstruction, to the backlash toward the end of the century, when Tourgee saw his country retreat from the goals of equality and freedom and utterly repudiate the work of Reconstruction. A poignant and inspiring study in courage and conviction, Color Blind Justice offers us an unforgettable portrayal of Albion Tourgee and the principles to which he dedicated his life. Finalist, 2007 Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship |
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... Tourgée's own fifteen-year struggle to revolutionize race and class relations as a carpetbagger in the war-torn state ofNorth Carolina. A fool in the Shakespearean mold, Tourgée's fictional alter ego perceived reality better than the ...
... Tourgée's own fifteen-year struggle to revolutionize race and class relations as a carpetbagger in the war-torn state ofNorth Carolina. A fool in the Shakespearean mold, Tourgée's fictional alter ego perceived reality better than the ...
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... [Tourgée] realize the meaning of the term 'A Fool's Errand.' ”4 Tourgée's critics were at a loss to explain his undiminished zeal for a cause that seemed hopeless and that so many other whites in the North had disowned. Southern author ...
... [Tourgée] realize the meaning of the term 'A Fool's Errand.' ”4 Tourgée's critics were at a loss to explain his undiminished zeal for a cause that seemed hopeless and that so many other whites in the North had disowned. Southern author ...
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... Tourgée elicited—from both blacks and whites, Northerners and Southerners. Through this dialogue—Tourgée's perspective and that of those around him—we can learn with greater precision the worldview he represented.16 Tourgée was deeply ...
... Tourgée elicited—from both blacks and whites, Northerners and Southerners. Through this dialogue—Tourgée's perspective and that of those around him—we can learn with greater precision the worldview he represented.16 Tourgée was deeply ...
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... Tourgée's great challenge was not merely to counter racism and to challenge deterministic theories of the self but to keep alive the public's memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction as a radical, indeed revolutionary, era.31 The ...
... Tourgée's great challenge was not merely to counter racism and to challenge deterministic theories of the self but to keep alive the public's memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction as a radical, indeed revolutionary, era.31 The ...
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... Tourgée's is not. Unlike their efforts, Tourgée's crusade did not experience the crowning triumph that the antislavery movement did with the final abolition of slavery in 1865. Reconstruction was to be remembered as a failure and much ...
... Tourgée's is not. Unlike their efforts, Tourgée's crusade did not experience the crowning triumph that the antislavery movement did with the final abolition of slavery in 1865. Reconstruction was to be remembered as a failure and much ...
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The Radical Advance | 41 |
The Counterrevolution | 163 |
Acknowledgments | 317 |
Abbreviations | 321 |
Notes | 323 |
Index | 375 |
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