Albion W. Tourgée
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1838 – 1905
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Who was Albion W. Tourgée?
Albion Winegar Tourgée was an American soldier, Radical Republican, lawyer, writer, 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. Historian Mark Elliott credits Tourgée with introducing the metaphor of "color-blind justice" into legal discourse.
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