In 1948, he admitted two Black college students to New Orleans’s Notre Dame Seminary. In 1951, he ordered the removing of “white” and “coloured” indicators from Catholic church buildings within the archdiocese. In a 1953 pastoral letter, he ordered an finish to segregation all through the archdiocese of New Orleans, telling White Catholics that, as a result of their “Coloured Catholic brethren share … the identical non secular life and future,” there may very well be “no additional discrimination or segregation within the pews, on the Communion rail, on the confessional and in parish conferences.”
