Carpetbagger's crusade : the life of Albion Winegar Tourgée /

"The Supreme Court's momentous school desegregation decision of 1954 was a postmortem victory for Albion Tourgée. Just fifty-eight years earlier this once-famous carpetbagger's attack on segregation was crushed in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. His legal defeat in 1896 typified his f...

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Main Author:	Olsen, Otto H. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 2019.
Subjects:	Tourgée, Albion W., > 1838-1905. African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century. Political activists > United States > Biography. African Americans > Civil rights. Political activists. United States. 1800-1899 History.

Carpetbagger's crusade ; the life of Albion Winegar Tourg'ee /

by Olsen, Otto H.
Published 1965

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