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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... declared that all of the historical incidents described within were selected from “authentic records,” or came within Dixon's “personal knowledge.” An amazed Tourgée, however, found an historical portrait within that was, in his words ...
... declared that all of the historical incidents described within were selected from “authentic records,” or came within Dixon's “personal knowledge.” An amazed Tourgée, however, found an historical portrait within that was, in his words ...
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... declared that Tourgée's “ false conception ” of the “ race problem is only now disappearing ” from the political scene.17 With Thomas Dixon's The Clansmen running serially on another page of its newspaper , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle took ...
... declared that Tourgée's “ false conception ” of the “ race problem is only now disappearing ” from the political scene.17 With Thomas Dixon's The Clansmen running serially on another page of its newspaper , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle took ...
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... the century , a new era in which race issues seemed ready to disappear from the agenda of progressive reform . Even some prominent African Americans, led by Booker T. Washington, declared that the solution 24 THE COLOR - BLIND CRUSADE.
... the century , a new era in which race issues seemed ready to disappear from the agenda of progressive reform . Even some prominent African Americans, led by Booker T. Washington, declared that the solution 24 THE COLOR - BLIND CRUSADE.
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... declared that the solution to the so-called race problem was beyond legislation and dismissed the crusade to eradicate civil inequalities based on “race, color or previous condition of servitude” of the previous generation as misguided ...
... declared that the solution to the so-called race problem was beyond legislation and dismissed the crusade to eradicate civil inequalities based on “race, color or previous condition of servitude” of the previous generation as misguided ...
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The Radical Advance | 41 |
The Counterrevolution | 163 |
Acknowledgments | 317 |
Abbreviations | 321 |
Notes | 323 |
Index | 375 |
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