Phases of a Man Called 'Moon': Mayor Landrieu and Race Relations in New Orleans, 1960-1974

This study examines the political career of Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu from his election to the Louisiana legislature in 1960 to the end of his first term as mayor of New Orleans in 1974. Landrieu was a white southern liberal who vigorously supported the agenda of the civil rights movem...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Straughan, Frank L., Jr.
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UNO 2011
Subjects:
Online Access:http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1347
http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2331&context=td
id ndltd-uno.edu-oai-scholarworks.uno.edu-td-2331
record_format oai_dc
spelling ndltd-uno.edu-oai-scholarworks.uno.edu-td-23312016-10-21T17:05:34Z Phases of a Man Called 'Moon': Mayor Landrieu and Race Relations in New Orleans, 1960-1974 Straughan, Frank L., Jr. This study examines the political career of Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu from his election to the Louisiana legislature in 1960 to the end of his first term as mayor of New Orleans in 1974. Landrieu was a white southern liberal who vigorously supported the agenda of the civil rights movement. He succeeded in building an unprecedented coalition between liberal, middle-class whites and a large segment of the black community. As the 1970s unfolded, however, he found his coalition increasingly threatened not just by disgruntled white conservatives, which might be expected, but also by angry black radicals of the Black Panther Party. This study argues that Landrieu's firm commitment to opening up political and economic opportunity to all citizens enabled him to keep his progressive, biracial coalition together and to help pave the way for the 1978 election of Ernest "Dutch" Morial, the first black mayor of New Orleans. 2011-05-20T07:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1347 http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2331&context=td University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations ScholarWorks@UNO Southern Urban Politics New Orleans Progressives Liberals Mayors Moon Landrieu Segregation 1960 New Orleans School Crisis 1966 New Orleans City Council Human Relations Committee Black Panthers
collection NDLTD
format Others
sources NDLTD
topic Southern
Urban
Politics
New Orleans
Progressives
Liberals
Mayors
Moon Landrieu
Segregation
1960 New Orleans School Crisis
1966 New Orleans City Council
Human Relations Committee
Black Panthers
spellingShingle Southern
Urban
Politics
New Orleans
Progressives
Liberals
Mayors
Moon Landrieu
Segregation
1960 New Orleans School Crisis
1966 New Orleans City Council
Human Relations Committee
Black Panthers
Straughan, Frank L., Jr.
Phases of a Man Called 'Moon': Mayor Landrieu and Race Relations in New Orleans, 1960-1974
description This study examines the political career of Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu from his election to the Louisiana legislature in 1960 to the end of his first term as mayor of New Orleans in 1974. Landrieu was a white southern liberal who vigorously supported the agenda of the civil rights movement. He succeeded in building an unprecedented coalition between liberal, middle-class whites and a large segment of the black community. As the 1970s unfolded, however, he found his coalition increasingly threatened not just by disgruntled white conservatives, which might be expected, but also by angry black radicals of the Black Panther Party. This study argues that Landrieu's firm commitment to opening up political and economic opportunity to all citizens enabled him to keep his progressive, biracial coalition together and to help pave the way for the 1978 election of Ernest "Dutch" Morial, the first black mayor of New Orleans.
author Straughan, Frank L., Jr.
author_facet Straughan, Frank L., Jr.
author_sort Straughan, Frank L., Jr.
title Phases of a Man Called 'Moon': Mayor Landrieu and Race Relations in New Orleans, 1960-1974
title_short Phases of a Man Called 'Moon': Mayor Landrieu and Race Relations in New Orleans, 1960-1974
title_full Phases of a Man Called 'Moon': Mayor Landrieu and Race Relations in New Orleans, 1960-1974
title_fullStr Phases of a Man Called 'Moon': Mayor Landrieu and Race Relations in New Orleans, 1960-1974
title_full_unstemmed Phases of a Man Called 'Moon': Mayor Landrieu and Race Relations in New Orleans, 1960-1974
title_sort phases of a man called 'moon': mayor landrieu and race relations in new orleans, 1960-1974
publisher ScholarWorks@UNO
publishDate 2011
url http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1347
http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2331&context=td
work_keys_str_mv AT straughanfrankljr phasesofamancalledmoonmayorlandrieuandracerelationsinneworleans19601974
_version_ 1718388173801783296