African Americans--History, United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Junior ROTC Rifle Team at Capitol Senior High School. Won first place in the over all Fourth Annual East Baton Rouge Parish Invitational Air Rifle match March 10, 1979, held at Glen Oaks High School. Front row left to right C/MAJ Lindacolar,...
Mayor Woody Dumas and the 1969-1972 City Parish Council of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish. Seated left to right: William S. Day, Jr., Ken Osterberger, Mayor W.W. Dumas, Calvin Gaynell "Gus" Kinchen, V.M. "Lank" Corsentino. Standing left to...
Baton Rouge (La.), Mayors, National Association of Counties, Long, Russell
Mayor Woody Dumas, left with Louisiana Senator Russell B. Long at the National Association of Counties (NACo) Legislative Conference. Photograph by Paul Serber. 1980
Mayor Dumas presides over the City Council (standing from left) John Allphin, R.T. Clegg, Gaston Gerald, Robert Williamson, A.R. Harris, Kenneth E. Osterberger (seated from left) Arthur F. Abadie, Goode Smith, Mayor Dumas, Dewey Raborn and Frank J....
Fire Prevention Activities Planning Committee for Negro Schools in East Baton Rouge Parish. Seated from left to right are: Mrs. I. Nance Givens, Raymond Scott, Rev. E. White, H. Stewart, Jr., Mesdames Bennett, W. Williams, A.W. Jackson and E.S....
Postcard: "The Cottage, Baton Rouge, La." Reverse reads: "'The Cottage' was built in 1824 by the great-great grandfather of the present occupants. Adjoining the 20 room house is the 1000 acre plantation. The house, with many original furnishings,...
North Boulevard. Four men identified as Black Muslims stand atop a car as the block the street prior to a shootout between blacks and police that left two officers and one black dead. January 10, 1970. Baton Rouge, La.
Winbourne Elementary School. Third Grade Class of 1953. First Row left to right: Lynda Kay Harms, Kay Gilpin, Gayle Bracken, Chevis Newman, Jack Vaugh, Terry Cooper. Second Row: Alvin Ballard, James Burt, Anita Bryant, Virginia Moore, Eileen...
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Historic buildings
Interior view of the Southern Bell Telephone Company switch board room, 1930's. Photograph was submitted with the following poem: Farewell, Old Building-Fare ye well. Of joys and sorrows, you well might tell. Many have entered and left your...
Nouveau Outer Orleanians, Ltd. Extravaganza held at the Laborer's Union Hall. The group is composed of men who formerly lived in New Orleans, but now reside in Baton Rouge. The group has two purposes, to provide social activities for members and...
Baton Rouge High School Wood Wind Ensemble, 1951. Left to right: Marie Reynaud, Denise Jones, Louis Berdon and Heather Hanman. Taken from Baton Rouge High School Band Scrapbook 1951-1952.
Baton Rouge High School Clarinet Trio, 1951. Left to right: John Butler, Sidney Miller and Fred Young. Taken from Baton Rouge High School Band Scrapbook 1951-1952
Baton Rouge High School German Band. Left to right: Larry Dawson, Jack Pierce, Gay Ikerd, Charles Madere, Pete Woodman. Taken from Baton Rouge High School Band Scrapbook 1952-1953.
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.