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Albion Tourgee
Tourgée, Albion Winegar
Albion Winegar Tourgée (tŏŏrzhā´), 1838–1905, American author and lawyer, b. Williamsfield, Ohio, studied at the Univ. of Rochester. After serving in the Union army he was for a few years a carpetbagger lawyer and political judge in North Carolina. Of his several novels, the best known are A Fool's Errand (1879) and Figs and Thistles (1879). They are valuable for their picture of the politics of the Reconstruction period.
See biography by O. H. Olsen (1965).
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright© 2012, The Columbia University Press.Selected full-text books and articles on this topic at Questia
Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgaee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson
Mark Elliott. Oxford University Press, 2006
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Mark Elliott. Oxford University Press, 2006
Albion Tourgee: Remembering Plessy's Lawyer on the 100th Anniversary of Plessy V. Ferguson
Curtis, Michael K. Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 1996
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Curtis, Michael K. Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 1996
Who Owns the Whip?: Chesnutt, Tourgee, and Reconstruction Justice
Hardwig, Bill. African American Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2002
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Hardwig, Bill. African American Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2002
American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary
E. C. Applegate. Greenwood Press, 2002
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E. C. Applegate. Greenwood Press, 2002
Librarian’s tip: "Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905)" begins on p. 377
The Southern Poor-White from Lubberland to Tobacco Road
Shields McIlwaine. University of Oklahoma Press, 1939
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Shields McIlwaine. University of Oklahoma Press, 1939
Librarian’s tip: "Post-War Northern Report on the Poor-White: Albion W. Tourgee and John W. Deforest" begins on p. 87
The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912
Ralph E. Luker. University of North Carolina Press, 1991
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Ralph E. Luker. University of North Carolina Press, 1991
Librarian’s tip: Discussion of Albion Tourgee begins on p. 75
The Past as Liberation from History
Scott P. Culclasure. Peter Lang, 1999
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Scott P. Culclasure. Peter Lang, 1999
Librarian’s tip: Discussion of Albion Tourgee begins on p. 107