A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in LouisianaThroughout 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 presents both the powerful story of one man's lifelong battle for racial justice and the very personal biography of a black professional and his family in the Jim Crow-era Louisiana. |
Contents
Underestimated and Misperceived | |
Of Creole Heritage | |
Educating Alex | |
Southern Exodus | |
Preparing for a Legal Career | |
Return to New Orleans | |
Desegregation of Primary and Secondary Schools | |
The Politician | |
Desegregation Battles after Brown | |
Enforcing Browns Mandate in New Orleans Grade Schools | |
Catholics and Desegregation | |
More to the Desegregation Mandate | |
Reconstructing Public Education | |
More Direct Action | |
Meeting Lucille | |
Growing Community Involvement | |
The War Years | |
NAACP Lawyer | |
Law and Fatherhood | |
Separate but Equal Strengthened in the Face of Desegregation | |
Courts Are the | |
Race against Time | |
Notes | |