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Miscellaneous APTureaud Trivia
*The AP Tureaud House is just around the corner from where I grew up.

* AP Tureaud Ave, formerly London Ave, was 4 blocks from our house.

*.He was close to my grandma's age but my mom knew him and referred to him as Lawyer Tureaud

*His son was the 1st Black student to attend LSU

*His mentee Ernest N 5Morial was New Orleans' 1st Black mayor

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Legal Career
*Admitted to the Louisiana Bar in 1927 (one of four Black lawyers in the state)

*Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1935

*Served as attorney for the New Orleans office of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc and handled civil rights cases filed in Louisiana from the early 1940s through the 1960s

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Posthumous Honors
*After his death on January 22, 1972, a New Orleans Street was named after him (A.P. Tureaud Avenue)

*His former residence added to National Register of Historic Places; African American Civil Rights Network

*His papers and bust are housed at the Amistad Research Center on Tulane University's campus

*A sculpture depicting Tureaud opening the gates of opportunity sits at the entrance of A. P. Tureaud Avenue

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Organizations
*Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc

*Member of NAACP

*Founded the Louis A. Martinet Society of Louisiana in 1957 for mentoring young Black lawyers

Other Activities and Collaborations
*Coauthored The Negro in Medicine in Louisiana with Dr. C. C. Haydel

*Collaborated with late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall

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Major Cases
*Equal pay for Louisiana's Black teachers

*Admission of Black students to
state-supported professional, graduate and undergraduate schools

*Integration of the New Orleans airport restaurant

*Desegregation of city buses

*Desegregation of the New Orleans’ school system

*Defense of one of the first sit-in cases to go before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Early life
*Born in New Orleans on February 26, 1899

*Educated in segregated New Orleans public schools

*Moved to Chicago as part of the Great Migration and worked in the rail yards making $1 an hour

*Moved to Washington, D.C. where he became a junior clerk at the United States Department of Justice library

Education
*Entered Howard University Law School in 1921

*Received law degree from Howard in 1925.

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It's #BlackFriday and the theme is #CivilRights As always, I look to my hometown of #NOLA to bring you info about someone you may be unfamiliar with. Meet legendary New Orleans Civil Rights Attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud, Sr., widely known as AP Tureaud.

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It's #BlackFriday and the theme is #CivilRights As always, I look to my hometown of #NOLA to bring you info about someone you may be unfamiliar with. Meet legendary New Orleans Civil Rights Attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud, Sr., widely known as AP Tureaud.