After leaving office, he was succeeded by the city's first black mayor, Dutch Morial.

The first African-American graduate of the LSU Law School was former New Orleans mayor, the late Ernest N. " Dutch " Morial.

In 2003, Marc Morial was appointed the league's eighth President and Chief Executive Officer.

The second annual All-Star game was held on February 16, 2008, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Ernest Nathan Morial ( known as Dutch ) ( October 9, 1929 – December 24, 1989 ) was a U. S. political figure and a leading civil rights advocate.

He was the father of former New Orleans mayor Marc Morial.

His father was Walter Etienne Morial, a cigarmaker, and his mother was Leonie V. ( Moore ) Morial, a seamstress.

During most of the election campaign, Morial was viewed by most commentators as a spoiler candidate with little chance of victory.

Morial was a polarizing figure as mayor of New Orleans.

Possessing a confrontational and abrasive personality, Morial was often accused by critics of being pompous, arrogant, vindictive and ruthless toward his political opponents.

Morial and his supporters countered that he was a confident and decisive leader, and that he was being held to a different and harsher standard than previous white mayors with a similar style.

The police union wagered, among its membership, that a strike coinciding with Mardi Gras would force the city to grant many of their demands, but Morial refused to give in and was supported by leaders of many of the city's Carnival krewes.

Emblematic of Morial ’ s hard-line stance toward the police strikers was the Napoleonic gesture he made by placing his arm inside his coat and striking a characteristically pugnacious pose at the announcement that he was canceling Mardi Gras.

Under Morial ’ s administration the number of black officers in the NOPD was increased to make up one third of the force.

By Morial's second term the city's economy was slowing and increased conflict with the City Council led to a decrease in the ability of the Morial administration to govern effectively.

After serving two terms as mayor, Morial was prevented by the city charter from seeking a third term.

Morial was the 23rd general president of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter organization established for African Americans.

In 1993, Morial was named one of the first thirteen inductees into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, the first African American so honored.

A public school in New Orleans East was named after him: Ernest N. Morial Elementary.

He twice unsuccessfully ran for New Orleans mayor, having first challenged Dutch Morial in the election of 1982, and then being defeated by Sidney Barthelemy in the mayoral runoff of 1986.

Expanding upon the efforts of his predecessor Moon Landrieu, Morial redoubled the city's commitment to affirmative action in hiring city workers and introduced minority hiring quotas for city contractors.

He considered running for mayor again in the election of 1990, and his sudden death in 1989 during the election campaign influenced Mayor Barthelemy ’ s re-election, since Morial died before he could endorse an opponent.

New Orleans renamed its convention center, which spans over 10 blocks, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in 1992 for the late mayor.

The Riverwalk Marketplace and Building 1 of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center are structures originally built for the fair.

After an unsuccessful run for Congress in 1990, in which he came in second place and was defeated in a runoff by Bill Jefferson, Morial ran for the Louisiana state senate in 1992.

In the 1994 election for mayor, Morial defeated Donald Mintz with 54 % of the vote.

Morial also secured bond issues for street improvements, the Canal Street streetcar line, and an expansion of the city ’ s convention center.

Two of the most well-known accomplishments of his administration dealt with professional sports: NBA basketball returned to the city after Morial orchestrated negotiations for the league's Charlotte Hornets to relocate there.

Like his father, Dutch Morial, Marc Morial made an attempt to amend the city charter to run for a third term as mayor in 2002.

Morial was mentioned as a possible candidate for Governor of Louisiana in 2011.

* Entry for Marc Morial at NNDB.

In 1994 Landrieu made an unsuccessful bid for the office of Mayor of New Orleans ; the office went to Marc Morial, the son of another former mayor ( the contest between sons of former mayors prompted some commentators to joke about establishing a tradition of primogeniture for the city's top office ).

Marc Haydel Morial ( born January 3, 1958 ) is an American political and civic leader and the current president of the National Urban League.

After serving as mayor, Morial was selected as President and CEO of the National Urban League, one of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organizations.

* Marc Morial, National Urban League

He spent several days touring the city to draw attention to the plight of citizens stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and other places.

A subdistrict of the French Quarter / CBD Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Iberville, Decatur and Canal Streets to the north, the Mississippi River to the east, the New Orleans Morial Convention Center, Julia and Magazine Streets and the Pontchartrain Expressway to the south and South Claiborne Avenue, Cleveland and South and North Derbigny Streets to the west.

The City Planning Commission defines the boundaries of the Central Business District as these streets: Iberville Street, Decatur Street, Canal Street, the Mississippi River, the New Orleans Morial Convention Center, Julia Street, Magazine Street, the Pontchartrain Expressway, South Claiborne Avenue, Cleveland Street, South Derbigny Street and North Derbigny Street.

The DDD also incorporates the Warehouse District, as well as landmarks like the Louisiana Superdome, the New Orleans Arena, the New Orleans Morial Convention Center, Jackson Square, the Riverwalk Marketplace, the Crescent City Connection, and Canal Place.

This development was due in part to the much-publicized reduction in New Orleans ’ high crime rate through the effective leadership of Morial ’ s Superintendent of Police, Richard Pennington.

Famous New Orleanians buried in St. Louis # 1 include Etienne de Boré, wealthy pioneer of the sugar industry and the first mayor of New Orleans ; Homer Plessy, the plaintiff from the landmark 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision on civil rights ; and Ernest N. " Dutch " Morial, the first African-American mayor of New Orleans.

Its current President is Marc Morial.

Morial has worked to reenergize the movement's diverse constituencies by building on the strengths of the NUL's 95-year-old legacy and increasing the organization's profile both locally and nationally.

During the 1982 mayoral race, Morial attacked Jefferson by calling him " Dollar Bill " – a nickname which has stuck to this day.

In the runoff, he defeated Marc Morial, the son of Dutch Morial, with 52 percent of the vote.

Guest speakers such as Jay Thomas, authors Pat Conroy, Tony Hillerman, Sister Helen Prejean, Orson Scott Card, Dana Gioia, Chaim Potok, former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, former New Orleans Mayor and alumnus Marc Morial, actor Jim Caviezel, theologian George Weigel, Jesuit Superior General Peter Hans Kolvenbach, ESPN announcer Mike Tirico, theologian and former U. S. Ambassador Michael Novak, and United States President William Howard Taft have addressed the student body.