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A refugee from his race : Albion W. Tourg�ee and His Fight against White Supremacy / Carolyn L. Karcher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469627977
  • 1469627973
  • 9781469627960
  • 1469627965
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Refugee from his raceDDC classification:
  • 813/.4 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3088 .K37 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
A straight-talking advocate -- Passing for black in Pactolus Prime -- The bystander -- The National Citizens' Rights Association -- Campaigning against lynching with Ida B. Wells and Harry C. Smith -- Representing people of color and challenging Jim Crow in the Plessy case -- The view from abroad.
Summary: When white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the US, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. He collaborated closely with African Americans in founding an interracial civil rights organisation, in campaigning against lynching, and in challenging the ideology of segregation. Here, Carolyn L. Karcher provides the first in-depth account of this collaboration.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A straight-talking advocate -- Passing for black in Pactolus Prime -- The bystander -- The National Citizens' Rights Association -- Campaigning against lynching with Ida B. Wells and Harry C. Smith -- Representing people of color and challenging Jim Crow in the Plessy case -- The view from abroad.

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When white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the US, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. He collaborated closely with African Americans in founding an interracial civil rights organisation, in campaigning against lynching, and in challenging the ideology of segregation. Here, Carolyn L. Karcher provides the first in-depth account of this collaboration.

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