Mark Elliott is Associate Professor of History at Wagner College.

A poignant and inspiring study in courage and conviction, Color Blind Justice offers us an unforgettable portrayal of Albion Tourgee and the principles to which he dedicated his life.

• Note on Usage


• Introduction: Albion Tourg?e and Color-Blind Citizenship


• Part I The Color-Blind Crusade


• 1: Judge Tourg?e and the Radical Civil War


• Part II The Radical Advance


• 2: The Making of a Radical Individualist in Ohios Western Reserve


• 3: Citizen-Soldier: Manhood and the meaning of Liberty


• 4: A Radical Yankee in the Reconstruction South


• 5: The Unfinished Revolution


• Part III The Counterrevolution


• 6: The Politics of Remembering Reconstruction


• 7: Radical Individualism in the Gilded Age


• 8: Beginning the Civil Rights Movement


• 9: The Rejection of Color-Blind Citizenship: Plessy v. Ferguson


• 10: The Fate of Color-Blind Citizenship


• Acknowledgements


• Abbreviations


• Notes


• Index