Leander Henry Perez Sr. (July 16, 1891 – March 19, 1969) was an American Democratic Party political boss of Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes in southeastern...

above Leander H. McNelly (1844–1877), Confederate officer and Texas Ranger captain Leander Paes (born 1973), Indian tennis player Leander Perez (1891–1969)...

enforcing strict racial segregation. Upon his death, his sons Leander Perez Jr., and Chalin O. Perez were elected as the dominant political figures of the parish...

Spanish cartoonist and illustrator Leander Perez, Louisiana judge Lisandro Pérez (born 2000), Venezuelan footballer Louie Pérez (born 1953), American songwriter...

presidential election. Some Southern diehards,[clarification needed] such as Leander Perez of Louisiana, attempted to keep it in existence in their districts....

Grace, at the urging of long-time southeastern Louisiana political boss Leander Perez, questioned Boggs's membership in the American Student Union in the...

OPSB and board member Emile Wagner. Gerald Rault, assisted by Judge Leander Perez, was the legal counsel in the case against the integration of public...

Parishes, Judge Leander Perez (died March 1969). However, in the late 1990s, St. Bernard officials chose to distance themselves from Leander Perez's segregationist...

with automatic generators taking over if the machinery fails. Judge Leander Perez enabled the tunnel's construction by passing a constitutional amendment...

incited violence, such as lynchings, shootings, rapes and arson, as did Leander Perez during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. In some cases, Council...

County Sheriff Jim Clark; former Mississippi governor Ross Barnett; Leander Perez, a fervent Louisiana segregationist and anti-Semite; Kent Courtney,...

rigged by Plaquemines Parish boss Leander Perez. At a stormy session of the state Democratic committee, Long attacked Perez and Grace for attacking Boggs...

then term-limited President Ernesto Pérez Balladares during an election where opposition figures suggested that Perez Balladares was hoping to convey the...

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to 1969, the parish was effectively ruled as part of the fiefdom of Leander Perez, a local Democratic official in neighboring Plaquemines Parish. In 1868...

tunnels infested with snakes and flooded with water". In the 1960s, Leander Perez threatened to turn Fort St. Philip into a prison for advocates of desegregation...

the area was involved in a political skirmish between the infamous Leander Perez and Governor Sam Houston Jones, resulting in the 'Invasion of Point...

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unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. Leander Perez (1891-1969), politician and judge, was born in Dalcour. "Dalcour, Louisiana"...

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Robert Shelton, Grand Wizard of the United Klans of America (D-AL) Leander Perez, Democratic political boss of Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes (D-LA)...

depends on that, whether or not it's able to ask [itself] that question." Leander Perez as himself Dorothy Counts as herself Joan Crawford in Dance, Fools,...

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on the committee agenda. Eastland's closest friend and confidant was Leander Perez. Eastland died on February 19, 1986. While at a fundraiser on June 18...

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to relieve traffic from the Belle Chasse Tunnel. It is named after Leander Perez, a local political boss and segregationist. It was part of a parish...

population. During the long reign of segregationist Plaquemines Parish boss Leander Perez (and continuing under his immediate successors), Ironton was denied...

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