{"product_id":"carpetbaggers-crusade-otto-h-olsen-9781421430553","title":"Carpetbagger's Crusade: The Life of Albion Winegar Tourg馥","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1965. The Supreme Court's momentous school desegregation decision of 1954 was a postmortem victory for Albion Tourg馥. Just fifty-eight years earlier this once-famous carpetbagger's attack on segregation was crushed in the case of \u003cem\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson\u003c\/em\u003e. His legal defeat in 1896 typified his frustrated but prophetic career. Tourg馥 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 Tourg馥's fourteen years in the South. With the collapse of the Southern experiment, Tourg馥 was inspired to turn to fiction to express his convictions. \u003cem\u003eA Fool's Errand by One of the Fools \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eBricks without Straw\u003c\/em\u003e were classics of their day, providing absorbing accounts and defenses of radical Reconstruction. In 1879 Tourg馥 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Otto H. Olsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 142143055X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421430553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.95d","brand":"Otto H. Olsen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983578661119,"sku":"9781421430553","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af5d9908-855e-4293-bb5f-6b521f0aca8b.jpg?v=1683267483","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/carpetbaggers-crusade-otto-h-olsen-9781421430553","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}