1880; Fords, Howard, & Hulbert publishers, New York; hardbound with red boards and black images and lettering; owner's note inside page (pic); minimal page foxing and wear; red boards good with some minor edge wear and tear and very minor soiling; no dust jacket.
 
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Albion Winegar Tourgée (May 2, 1838 – May 21, 1905) was an American soldier, Radical Republican, lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat. A pioneer civil rights activist, he founded the National Citizens' Rights Association, established the historically black women's college Bennett College, and litigated for the plaintiff Homer Plessy in the famous segregation case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). Historian Mark Elliott credits Tourgée with introducing the metaphor of "color-blind justice" into legal discourse.