Carolyn L. Karcher
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xviii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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. Tourgée (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, Tourgée offers an ideal lens through which to reexamine...