A Refugee from His Race
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A Refugee from His Race

Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy

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A Refugee from His Race

Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy

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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.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781469627960
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Études afro-américaines

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. A Refugee from His Race
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Chapter One: A Straight-Talking Advocate
  10. Chapter Two: Passing for Black in Pactolus Prime
  11. Chapter Three: The “Bystander”
  12. Chapter Four: The National Citizens’ Rights Association
  13. Chapter Five: Campaigning against Lynching with Ida B. Wells and Harry C. Smith
  14. Chapter Six: Representing People of Color and Challenging Jim Crow in the Plessy Case
  15. Chapter Seven: The View from Abroad
  16. Afterword
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index