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TourgÉe, Albion Winegar - toorzhāˈ, 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

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Albion Tourgee: Remembering Plessy's Lawyer on the 100th Anniversary of Plessy v. Ferguson, in Constitutional Commentary » Read Now
by Michael Kent Curtis. 12 pgs.

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...Albion Tourgee: remembering Plessys lawyer on the 100th...and much political commentary.(6) Albion Tourgee was the only child of Valentine Tourgee...See also J. G. de...
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Who Owns the Whip?: Chesnutt, Tourgee, and Reconstruction Justice, in African American Review » Read Now
by Bill Hardwig. 16 pgs.

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...ought at least to be color-blind. (Albion Tourgee, qtd. in Olsen, Thin 90) Nowhere...Chesnutt, "Courts" 1) In many ways, Albion Tourgees relationship to...
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Race, Color Blindness, and the Democratic Public: Albion W. Tourgee's Radical Principles in Plessy v. Ferguson, in Journal of Southern History » Read Now
by Mark Elliott. 43 pgs.

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American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary ("Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905)" begins on p. 377) » Read Now
by E. C. Applegate. 426 pgs.

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This reference includes alphabetically arranged biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Realistic and Naturalistic novelists, including Henry Adams, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Jack London. Each entry includes basic biographical...
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This reference includes alphabetically arranged biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Realistic and Naturalistic novelists, including Henry Adams, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Jack London. Each entry includes basic biographical information and a narrative overview of the writer's educational background, professional career, and published works. These works are briefly discussed to show how they fit within the Realistic and Naturalistic traditions.
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The Southern Poor-White from Lubberland to Tobacco Road ("Post-War Northern Report on the Poor-White: Albion W. Tourgee and John W. Deforest" begins on p. 87) » Read Now
by Shields McIlwaine. 280 pgs.

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The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912 (Discussion of Albion Tourgee begins on p. 75) » Read Now
by Ralph E. Luker. 448 pgs.

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The Past as Liberation from History (Discussion of Albion Tourgee begins on p. 107) » Read Now
by Scott P. Culclasure. 174 pgs.

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Scott P. Culclasure is International Baccalaureate Coordinator at High Point Central High School, in the Guilford County, North Carolina, school district.