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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.
The photograph became a viral phenomenon on social media [3] [5] [6] and a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement. [7] Evans was attending her first protest when she was arrested, having traveled to Baton Rouge after seeing news coverage of the shooting of Sterling. [8] She was detained, held overnight and released on the evening of the next ...
Johnnie Anderson Jones Sr. (November 30, 1919 – April 23, 2022) was an American politician, soldier, and civil rights attorney associated with the 1953 Baton Rouge bus boycott, the first anti-segregation bus boycott, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [2]
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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 ]