A refugee from his race

"During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourg?e (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. ... Tourg?e offers an ideal lens through which to reexamine the often caricatured relations between progressive whites and African Americans. He collaborated closely with African Americans in founding an interracial civil rights organization eighteen years before the inception of the NAACP, ... Here Carolyn L. Karcher provides the first in-depth account of this collaboration. Drawing on Tourg?e's vast correspondence ..., on African American newspapers and on his newspaper column"--Back cover.