He is remembered for his interest in levee and road construction and his fight against the resurgent Ku Klux Klan, which had initially appeared in the year of Fuqua's birth, not in Louisiana, but in Pulaski, Tennessee.
He is remembered for his interest in levee and road construction and his fight against the resurgent Ku Klux Klan, whom the preceding governor, John M. Parker had tried to counter as well. The KKK had initially appeared in the year of Fuqua's birth, not in Louisiana, but in Pulaski, Tennessee.