Books with author Albion W. Tourgee

Albion Winegar Tourgee (1838-1905), also wrote under the pseudonym Henry Churton, was an American soldier, Radical Republican, lawyer, judge, novelist, and diplomat. A pioneer civil rights activist, he founded the National Citizens' Rights Association and litigated for the plaintiff Homer Plessy in the famous segregation case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, in April 1861 he enlisted in the 27th New York Infantry. In 1863, Tourgee was captured at the Battle of Stones River and was held for six months as a prisoner-of-war in Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, before his release and parole. After the war, Tourgee established himself as a lawyer, farmer, and editor in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he and his wife moved so he could live in a warmer climate better suited to his war injuries. In 1881, he moved to Mayville, New York, near the Chautauqua Institution, and made his living as writer and editor of the literary weekly Our Continent until it failed in 1884. His works include: 'Toinette (also titled: A Royal Gentleman) (1874), Figs and Thistles (1879) and Bricks Without Straw (1880).

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Excerpt from Bricks Without Straw: A NovelInitially Tourgée's political involvement as a minority agitator and editor of a soon bankrupt radical weekly proved a costly embarrassment, but the enfranchisement of the freedmen in 1867 brought him prominence and success as a leader of the newly formed North Carolina Republican Party. As a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1868, Tourgée successfully promoted a wide variety of important reforms. Following that convention, he served on a commission entrusted with providing a new legal code for the state, and he was elected a superior court judge. Thereafter he also remained very much involved in the intricacies and excitements associated with Reconstruction poli tics, one of the most emotional and violent political episodes in the history of the United States.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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