Dr. Leo Stanley Butler was born August 12, 1899 in Burtville, a small community just south of Baton Rouge. He graduated from Baton Rouge Colored School in 1918. He was the first male to receive a diploma from what became McKinley. He completed both...
Dr. Leo Stanley Butler was born August 12, 1899 in Burtville, a small community just south of Baton Rouge. He graduated from Baton Rouge Colored School in 1918. He was the first male to receive a diploma from what became McKinley. He completed both...
Camp Fire Girls present the East Baton Rouge Parish Library with copies of the organization's recent publications. Judy Welch, Toni Allen, and Alexis Schexnayder, seventh graders at Central School and members of the Chesk Cha May group make the...
(L. to r.) Tillie Scheneker, Mrs. Charles Morton, Director of LSU Library School, Essae M. Culver, State Librarian, and Mrs. Ella V. Aldrich Schwing at a Tea. Date: August 1962
Testimonial dinner for Miss Essae Mae Culver from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, (Left to right) Emerson Greenaway, Ms. Florinell Morton of the Louisiana State Library and Mr. Pie Dufor. Date: June 1962
Immunization Campaign against polio. (left to right) Dr. Thomas Gladney, Dr. Mullins, ?, Mayor Christian, and City Council member Woody Dumas. Date: August 15, 1962.
BREC's Gulf States Tennis Tournament at Baton Rouge's City Park Tennis Courts. (Left to right) ?, Mayor Christian and Mr. McGehee of BREC. Date: August 20-25, 1962.
School integration—Louisiana, Civil rights movement
Reverend Arthur T. Jelks, NAACP President (here at left) led this group of children to the Baton Rouge Junior High School in a futile attempt to register them at the school. Turning them away is R.L. Smith, school principal.