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.
Located at 131 Lafayette Street. Built from wrought iron, it is 100 feet high, 15 feet in diameter with a 146,000 gallon capacity was originally fed with water from the Mississippi. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Built...
Tillie Scheneker at the Mid City Library Branch Construction site. Taken by Lovell Muse for the Register Magazine. Baton Rouge, La. b/w photo. Date: April, 1966