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...
Mayor Woody Dumas, Bishop Robert Tracy, bishop of Baton Rouge and Mrs. Carol Dumas at a farewell tribute for Archbishop John P. Cody. Date: August 9, 1965
August 6, 1969 Press release from the Office of the Mayor-President addressing recent racial tensions in Baton Rouge. The tensions were the result of the shooting of James Oliney in July of 1969 by Officer Ray Breaux. The night of Oliney's...
August 11, 1969 Press release from the Office of the Mayor-President addressing recent racial tensions in Baton Rouge. The tensions were the result of the shooting of James Oliney in July of 1969 by Officer Ray Breaux. The night of Oliney's...
Broom and brush industry, Automobiles, Blind persons, Amite City (La.)
Deck and Lily Schlaudecker of Amite, La. Blind broom maker and his wife discuss their broom and mop making business, life in Amite, La. overcoming Deck's disability. Views of Amite as Lily drives Vernon Roget around in her 1936 Coup. (8:56)...
"Everybody's Dream Girl". Baton Rouge High Senior Henson Moore contemplates fellow students and Horizon Girls (l. to r.) Della Hayes, Mary Alice Fogleman, and Carole Ball. Date: August 13, 1958
Camp Fire Girls--History, Baton Rouge (La.), Afton Villa Gardens (Saint Francisville, La.)
Mrs. E.H. Scott, formerly a Camp Fire Girls leader and now a professional model, leads a Charm Clinic that was offered to Junior High Camp Fire Girls. (L. to r.) Patsy Rice, Sharon Davie, and Helen Boies learn about posture. Date: August 12, 1958
Chapel of the Madonna in Point Pleasant, La. on Bayou Goula. This diminutive chapel stands north of the Nottoway Plantation on Bayou Goula. Signs for Madonna Chapel along River Rd. proclaim it to be the "Smallest Church in the World." It was built...
Billy Brooks, Director of the Louisiana Black People Advancement Association, sits on the shoulders of some of his followers and leads a group in shouts of "Black Power". The group formed from a larger group that was holding a rally on the steps of...