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Albion Winegar Tourge was an American soldier, Radical Republican, lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat. A pioneer civil rights activist, he founded the National Citizens Rights Association, established the historically black womens college Bennett College, and litigated for the plaintiff Homer Plessy in the famous segregation case Plessy v. Ferguson . Historian Mark Elliott credits Tourge with introducing the metaphor of colorblind justice into legal discourse.

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