Undaunted Radical

by Elliott, Mark; Smith, John David

• ISBN13: 9780807135938
• ISBN10: 0807135933
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

A leading proponent of racial equality in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century, Albion W. Tourgeacute;e (18381905) served as the most articulate spokesman of the radical wing of the Republican party and he continued to advocate for its egalitarian ideals long after Reconstruction ended. Undaunted Radical presents Tourgeacute;e's most significant letters, speeches, and essays from the commencement of Radical Reconstruction through the bleak days of the era of Jim Crow. It also includes an introductory overview of Tourgeacute;e's life and an exhaustive bibliography of Tourgeacute;e's writings and related works, providing an essential collection for anyone studying Reconstruction and the early civil rights movement.

Author Biography

Mark Elliott, associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is the author of Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourge and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson. John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is the author of An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Ordeal of Reconstruction
To the Voters of Guilford (1867)	p. 25
The Reaction (1868)	p. 28
Speech on Elective Franchise (1868)	p. 35
Letter to the North Carolina Standard (1870)	p. 43
Letter to Senator Joseph C. Abbott (1870)	p. 47
Letter to Martin B. Anderson (1874)	p. 52
Letter to E. S. Parker (1875)	p. 54
Root, Hog, or Die (ca. 1876)	p. 58
Remedies For Racism
Aaron's Rod in Politics (1881)	p. 65
The Veto of the Chinese Bill (1882)	p. 88
The Apostle of Evolution (1882)	p. 91
From An Appeal to Caesar (1884)	p. 93
Shall White Minorities Rule? (1889)	p. 112
From Pactolus Prime, or the White Christ (1889)	p. 123
From Murvale Eastman, Christian Socialist (1890)	p. 140
The Negro's View of the Race Problem (1890)	p. 152
History and Public Memory
From 'Toinette: A Tale of the South (1874)	p. 173
From The Veteran and His Pipe (1885)	p. 182
The South as a Field for Fiction (1888)	p. 203
From A Memorial of Frederick Douglass from the City of Boston (1895)	p. 212
The Literary Quality of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1896)	p. 229
Race and Citizenship in the 1890s
A Bystander's Notes: White Caps (1888)	p. 237
A Bystander's Notes: The Kemper County Affair (1889)	p. 240
A Bystander's Notes: The Afro-American League (1889)	p. 246
Is Liberty Worth Preserving? (1892)	p. 252
Letter to Professor Jeremiah W. Jencks (1892)	p. 276
Letter to Louis A. Martinet (1893)	p. 282
That Lynching: Judge Tourgée Writes Gov. McKinley and the Editor of "The Gazette" (1894)	p. 289
Brief of Plaintiff in Error (1895)	p. 296
Oral Argument of A. W. Tourgée (1896)	p. 328
Coda: Letters from Bordeaux
Letter to President William McKinley (1898)	p. 343
Letter to Ferdinand L. Barnett (1900)	p. 346
Letter to President Theodore Roosevelt (1901)	p. 351
Letter to E. H. Johnson (1902)	p. 356
Bibliography	p. 379
Index	p. 389
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