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Young led the first voter registration drives in the Baton Rouge black community. In 1938, he founded the First Ward Voters League. He also worked to improve sanitary conditions in black sections of Baton Rouge. Young was one of the leaders of the 1953 Baton Rouge bus boycott. [2]
Baton Rouge: The Observer: 1899 [26] 1900 [26] Weekly [26] LCCN 2014254009, sn83016560; OCLC 851187461, 9907976; Baton Rouge: Baton Rouge Post: 1937 [27]? [27] Weekly [27] LCCN sn88064129; OCLC 17499960; Baton Rouge: Baton Rouge Post: 1983 [29] 2007 [28] Irregular [29] or weekly [28] LCCN sn88064185; OCLC 17554084; Not to be confused with ...
The museum is named for Odell S. Williams, an educator in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Founded by Sadie Roberts-Joseph in 2001, the museum remains the only museum dedicated to African and African American history in the city. [3] The museum celebrates Juneteenth, [4] [5] Black History Month, and American history year round. [6]
William P. "Buckskin Bill" Black (1929 – January 10, 2018) was a Louisiana children's television personality and, later, school board member. [1] [2] He hosted what at the time were the longest-running children's television programs in the United States, Storyland and The Buckskin Bill Show, on Baton Rouge's WAFB-TV.
Bachman, who dropped out of college to become a photographer after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, took more than 1,200 photos of the protest and was up until 4 a.m. transferring files to his laptop.
Sadie Roberts-Joseph (1944 – July 12, 2019) was an American community activist and founder of the Baton Rouge Odell S. Williams Now & Then Museum of African-American History in 2001. [1] She was also the founder of a non-profit organization, Community Against Drugs and Violence (CADAV). [ 2 ]
WAFB (channel 9) is a television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power, Class A MyNetworkTV affiliate WBXH-CD (channel 39). The two stations share studios on Government Street in downtown Baton Rouge; WAFB's transmitter is located on River Road near the city's Riverbend section.
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