The white politicians who had a lock on power on Louisiana said he’d dug his political grave, but he held onto his House seat in 1963 and then won a city council seat in 1965 with strong support from Black voters, whose influence was beginning to be felt at the polls. They passed by lopsided margins with Landrieu, at least once, the lone “no” vote. Jimmie Davis steamrolled legislation to keep students in New Orleans separated by race. Supreme Court ordered public schools to desegregate nationwide, and Landrieu couldn’t in good conscience go along when Gov. “He died peacefully this morning surrounded by family,” Berni told The Associated Press.Ī progressive white Democrat whose demeanor could be combative at times, Landrieu came from a blue-collar Roman Catholic family, served in the Army and sat alongside the first Black students at the city’s Loyola law school before winning a statehouse seat in 1960.īy then, six years had passed since the U.S. Ryan Berni, a longtime friend of the family, confirmed that Landrieu passed away early Monday. Former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu - whose early, lonely stand against segregationists in the Louisiana legislature launched a political career at the forefront of sweeping changes on race - died Monday, a family friend confirmed.

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