A. P. Tureaud

Alexander Pierre "A. P." Tureaud Sr. (February 26, 1899 – January 22, 1972)[1] was an African-American attorney who headed the legal team for the New Orleans chapter of the NAACP during the Civil Rights Movement.

With the assistance of Thurgood Marshall and Robert Carter from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, A. P. Tureaud filed the lawsuit that successfully ended the system of Jim Crow segregation in New Orleans.

[3] In 1954, the United States Supreme Court overturned Plessy and ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated schools were unconstitutional and must be desegregated "with all deliberate speed."

In the following years, A. P. Tureaud and the NAACP initiated the lawsuits which eventually forced the Orleans Parish School System to desegregate.

He worked out of an office in the Peter Claver Building, which partly served as a headquarters for the local chapter of the NAACP.

Turead's house at 3121 Pauger Street in New Orleans , where he resided at the time of his death