Color-blind justice : Albion Tourgée and the quest for racial equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson /

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,...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Elliott, Mark, 1969 September 23- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Sujets:
Tourgée, Albion W., > 1838-1905.
Tourgée, Albion W., > 1838-1905
1800-1899
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
Abolitionists > United States > History.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Abolitionnistes > États-Unis > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Abolitionists
African Americans > Civil rights
Race relations
United States > Race relations > History.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • pt. I. The color-blind crusade. Judge Tourgée and the radical Civil War
  • pt. II. The radical advance. The making of a radical individualist in Ohio's Western Reserve ; Citizen-soldier: manhood, and the meaning of liberty ; A radical Yankee in the Reconstruction South ; The unfinished revolution
  • pt. III. The counterrevolution. The politics of remembering Reconstruction ; Radical individualism in the Gilded Age ; Beginning the Civil Rights Movement ; The rejection of color-blind citizenship: Plessy v. Ferguson ; The fate of color-blind citizenship.

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