A prolific career as a civil rights attorney…
Alexander Pierre “A.P.” Tureaud, Sr. worked to abolish Jim Crow laws – handling practically all desegregation and other civil rights cases filed in Louisiana from the mid-1920s through the 1960s. Tureaud also successfully defended the first sit-in cases to go before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Tureaud was born in New Orleans in 1899. His family was of black Creole ancestry – descendants of French immigrants and enslaved Africans – and he encountered segregation and racial discrimination, made legal just three years prior to his birth.
As a young man he moved to New York City, where he was inspired by local civil rights activities to become a champion of racial equality. In 1925, he graduated from Howard University Law School and soon returned to his native Louisiana where he worked diligently to overturn segregation laws.
A More Noble Cause is a powerful story of his lifelong battle for racial justice and the very personal biography of a black professional and his family in Jim Crow–era Louisiana.
Upcoming Book Events
Saturday, May 19
(Rain Date: Sunday, May 20)
Louisiana Historical Marker Unveiling Ceremony at the A. P. Tureaud, Sr. Residence
3121 Pauger Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
1 pm
(Invitation)
Wednesday-Saturday, October 3-6
Journey for Justice: Local History, Civil Rights, and the Power of Place (Video Screening and Book Talk)
2012 American Association of State and Local History (AASLH) Annual Meeting
Salt Lake City, Utah
Wednesday, October 24
Shreveport Bar Association Luncheon Book Talk and Signing
Shreveport, Louisiana
Details TBA