Originally published in 1965. The Supreme Court's momentous school
desegregation decision of 1954 was a postmortem victory for Albion
Tourgee. 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
frustrated but prophetic career. Tourgee was an idealistic Union
veteran who ventured south in 1865. As an advocate of civil rights,
political equality, free schools, and penal reform, he was elected
to North Carolina's Constitutional Convention of 1868. Olsen
records both the fierce struggles and the impressive
accomplishments that filled Tourgee's fourteen years in the South.
With the collapse of the Southern experiment, Tourgee was inspired
to turn to fiction to express his convictions. A Fool's Errand by
One of the Fools and Bricks without Straw were classics of their
day, providing absorbing accounts and defenses of radical
Reconstruction. In 1879 Tourgee went north, where he renewed and
extended his crusade for Negro equality by writing, lecturing, and
lobbying. For many years he was the most militant and persistent
advocate of racial equality in the nation. He was also a vigorous
critic of the industrial age, demanding the utilization of federal
power in behalf of equality, democracy, and economic justice.
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