History
A. P. Tureaud
A. P. Tureaud was a key legal activist in an era of vigorous challenges to Jim Crow in twentieth-century Louisiana.
A. P. Tureaud was a key legal activist in an era of vigorous challenges to Jim Crow in twentieth-century Louisiana.
Between 1960 and 1967 the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) played a key role in Louisiana’s Black freedom struggle.
Delphine Dupuy was a civil rights activist in Baton Rouge who was one of the founding members of the Baton Rouge branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1929.
Georgia Johnson was a businesswoman and civil rights activist in Alexandria from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Henrietta Windham Johnson was a social campaigner and civil rights activist in Monroe.
In the late nineteenth century, the implementation of Jim Crow—or racial segregation—laws institutionalized white supremacy and Black inferiority throughout the South.
After the Civil War, African Americans gained some political rights and power before having them taken away again during the era of Jim Crow laws and segregation.
The NAACP, a national organization founded in 1909 to fight for citizenship rights for Black Americans, opened its first Louisiana branch in 1914.
Oretha Castle Haley defied rigid southern gender and racial constructs to become one of Louisiana's leading civil rights, women's rights, and human rights activists.
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