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

by Rachel L. Emanuel and Alexander P. Tureaud

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807137936
• ISBN13: 9780807137932
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"