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Robin campus in Schaumburg and the realization of Roosevelt as a metropolitan university, creating a vivid portrait of the educational context of large community colleges throughout the northwest suburbs, the development of a community advisory board that helped secure funds, and the improved morale of faculty and administration."
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Study of the fiction of a leading Northern writer of Reconstruction literature.
Ninety-one selections from major Negro writings of the 19th and 20th centuries prefaced by an introduction to each author.
Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as nonfiction works of history, law, and politics. This volume is the first collection focused on Tourgée’s literary work and intends to establish his reputation as one of the great writers of fiction about the Reconstruction era arguably th...