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

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Title:

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

Author:

Elliott, Mark, 1969 September 23-

Personal Author:

Elliott, Mark, 1969 September 23-

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2006]

Physical Description:

viii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

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.

Personal Subject:

Tourgée, Albion W., 1838-1905.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century.

Abolitionists -- United States -- History.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Geographic Term:

United States -- Race relations -- History.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0611/2006011311.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2006011311-b.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2006011311-d.html

ISBN:

9780195181395