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 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.
During a career that spanned more than forty years, A. P.
Tureaud was at times the only regularly practicing black attorney
in Louisiana. From his base in New Orleans, the civil rights
pioneer fought successfully to obtain equal pay for Louisiana's
black teachers, to desegregate public accommodations, schools, and
buses, and for voting rights of qualified black residents.
Tureaud's work, along with that of dozens of other African American
lawyers, formed part of a larger legal battle that eventually
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision
that legalized racial segregation.
This intimate account, based on more than twenty years of
research into the attorney's astounding legal and civil rights
career as well as his community work, offers the first full-length
study of Tureaud. An active organizer of civic and voting leagues,
a leader in the NAACP, a national advocate of the Knights of Peter
Claver -- a fraternal order of black Catholics -- and a respected
political power broker and social force as a Democrat and member of
the Autocrat Club and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Tureaud worked
tirelessly within the state and for all those without equal
rights.
Both an engrossing story of a key legal, political, and
community figure during Jim Crow--era Louisiana and a revealing
look at his personal life during a tumultuous time in American
history, A More Noble Cause provides insight into Tureaud's public
struggles and personal triumphs, offering readers a candid account
of a remarkable champion of racial equality.
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