More Noble Cause : A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana.
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More Noble Cause : A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana.
Author:
Emanuel, Rachel L.
ISBN:
9780807139424
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Underestimated and Misperceived -- 2. Of Creole Heritage -- 3. Educating Alex -- 4. Southern Exodus -- 5. Preparing for a Legal Career -- 6. Return to New Orleans -- 7. Meeting Lucille -- 8. Growing Community Involvement -- 9. The War Years -- 10. NAACP Lawyer -- 11. Law and Fatherhood -- 12. "Separate but Equal" Strengthened in the Face of Desegregation -- 13. Desegregation of Primary and Secondary Schools -- 14. The Politician -- 15. Desegregation Battles after Brown -- 16. Enforcing Brown's Mandate in New Orleans Grade Schools -- 17. Catholics and Desegregation -- 18. More to the Desegregation Mandate -- 19. Reconstructing Public Education -- 20. More Direct Action -- 21. Courts Are the Way -- 22. Race against Time -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations follow page 116.
Abstract:
Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana's courts. "A More Noble Cause," is both the powerful story of one man's life-long battle for racial justice and the very personal biography of a black professional and his family in Jim Crow era Louisiana.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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