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A more noble cause : A.P. Tureaud and the struggle for civil rights in Louisiana : a personal biography
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- Creator
- Rachel L. Emanuel and Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 293 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807137949, 0807137936, 0807139424, 0807137944, 9780807139431, 9780807137932, 0807139432, 9780807139424
- OCLC
- ocn679940476, ocn714830723
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Underestimated and misperceived -- Of creole heritage -- Educating Alex -- Southern exodus -- Preparing for a legal career -- Return to New Orleans -- Meeting Lucille -- Growing community involvement -- The war years -- NAACP lawyer -- Law and fatherhood -- "Separate but equal" strengthened in the face of desegregation -- Desegregation of primary and secondary schools -- The politician -- Desegregation battles after Brown -- Enforcing Brown's mandate in New Orleans grade schools -- Catholics and desegregation -- More to the desegregation mandate -- Reconstructing public education -- More direct action -- Courts are the way -- Race against time
Subjects
- Tureaud, Alexander Pierre, 1899-1972.
- African American civil rights workers -- Louisiana -- Biography.
- Civil rights workers -- Louisiana -- Biography.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century.
- Civil rights movements -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century.
- Segregation -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century.
- Segregation in education -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century.
- School integration -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century.
- Louisiana -- Race relations.