| A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight Against White Supremacy Contributor(s): Karcher, Carolyn L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469627957 ISBN-13: 9781469627953 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $45.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists - Biography & Autobiography | Lawyers & Judges - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2015040274 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.45 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. Acclaimed by blacks as "one of the best friends of the Afro-American people this country has ever produced" and reviled by white Southerners as a race traitor, Tourgee offers an ideal lens through which to reexamine the often caricatured relations between progressive whites and African Americans. He collaborated closely with African Americans in founding an interracial civil rights organization eighteen years before the inception of the NAACP, in campaigning against lynching alongside Ida B. Wells and Cleveland Gazette editor Harry C. Smith, and in challenging the ideology of segregation as lead counsel for people of color in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case. Here, Carolyn L. Karcher provides the first in-depth account of this collaboration. Drawing on Tourgee's vast correspondence with African American intellectuals, activists, and ordinary folk, on African American newspapers and on his newspaper column, "A Bystander's Notes," in which he quoted and replied to letters from his correspondents, the book also captures the lively dialogue about race that Tourgee and his contemporaries carried on. |
Contributor Bio(s): Karcher, Carolyn L.: - Carolyn L. Karcher is the author of The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child and the editor of Tourgee's novel Bricks Without Straw. |