A More Noble Cause : A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emanuel, Rachel Lorraine, 1955-
Other Authors: Tureaud, Alexander P., 1936-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tureaud, Alexander Pierre, > 1899-1972.
Segregation in education.
Segregation.
School integration.
Race relations.
Civil rights workers.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American civil rights workers.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
Desegregation en education > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Segregation en education > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Segregation > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Louisiane > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme > Louisiane > Biographies.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs americains > Louisiane > Biographies.
School integration > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
Segregation in education > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
Segregation > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Louisiana > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Louisiana > Biography.
Louisiana.
Louisiane > Relations raciales.
Louisiana > Race relations.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780807137949

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