Moon Landrieu, mayor who bridged Black and White New Orleans, dies at 92
Source: The Times-Picayune
Moon Landrieu, a transformational New Orleans mayor who helped usher in the rise of Black political power at City Hall and whose passion for public service spawned a political dynasty, died Monday at his home in New Orleans, his family said. He was 92.
A state legislator and City Council member during the tumultuous end of government-sanctioned segregation, Landrieu ascended to the mayor’s office in 1970 in part by promising to make jobs and other opportunities available to Black New Orleanians.
He oversaw the completion of the Superdome and the reshaping of the Central Business District as skyscrapers and major hotels took root. And before moving on to a Cabinet post in President Jimmy Carter's administration and later to a state appeals court judgeship, he handed the keys to an integrated City Hall in 1978 to New Orleans’ first Black mayor, Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, starting a succession of African-American leaders interrupted only by Landrieu's son, Mitch, who took office in 2010.
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Landrieu passed his legacy of civic involvement to his nine children, who went on to high-profile elected offices, judgeships and board appointments. His daughter, Mary, was a legislator and state treasurer who served three terms from Louisiana in the U.S. Senate, while Mitch Landrieu was elected lieutenant governor and mayor of New Orleans and now serves as a senior adviser to Joe Biden for implementing the president's infrastructure program.
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