Albion Winegar Tourgée was an American soldier, lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat. Wounded in the Civil War, he relocated to North Carolina afterward, where he became involved in Reconstruction activities. He served in the constitutional convention and later in the state legislature. A pioneer civil rights activist, he founded the National Citizens' Rights Association, and founded Bennett College as a normal school for freedmen in North Carolina.
Albion W. Tourgée
Historical marker in front of Albion Tourgée's boyhood home near Kingsville, Ohio; marker placed in May 2015.
On the left: Lt. Albion W Tourgée, 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1863
The house in Mayville, New York, where Tourgée lived from 1881 until his posting to the French consulate in 1900.
Bennett College is a private historically black liberal arts college for women in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was founded in 1873 as a normal school to educate freedmen and train both men and women as teachers. Originally coed, in 1926 it became a four-year women's college. It is one of two historically black colleges that enroll only women, the other being Spelman College.
Southern part of the campus
The bell was rung to notify students of class and meal times
Bennett students picketing the segregated National Theatre
Senator Elizabeth Dole visiting Bennett College in 2003
