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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.
The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott was an organized, eight-day long protest of the segregated seating system on city buses.
The Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of June 1953 lasted eight days and became a model for organizers of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott.
In 1873 white Louisianans responded to Reconstruction policies with violence, resulting in the Colfax Massacre.
In 1873 white Louisianans responded to Reconstruction policies with violence, resulting in a massacre that claimed as many as 150 lives.
The Comité des Citoyens was an equal rights organization formed in 1891 that played a key role in the events leading up to Plessy v. Ferguson.
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.
Businessman and real estate investor whose extensive involvement with slavery complicates his legacy as a benefactor of public education.
One of Louisiana’s most famous legal cases, Plessy v. Ferguson joins Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) as key rulings on the US civil rights timeline.
A US Supreme Court decision handed down in 1896 enacted “separate but equal” as the law of the land, a doctrine of racial segregation that lasted nearly six decades.
Confederate official and Reconstruction-era Superintendent of Education for the State of Louisiana
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