The Baton Rouge National Cemetery is downtown, only about a mile away from the Louisiana State Capitol. The National Register of Historic Places Registration Form said this Civil War-era cemetery ...

Some people will argue that the real depiction of war happened when network news televised events during the war in Vietnam. But artists, with only their paper and pencils, were ...

Baton Rouge is mourning the loss a World War 2 veteran and civil rights activist who played a key role in the 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott. By WAFB staff Published : Apr. 23, 2022 at 9:13 PM CDT ...

From West Baton Rouge Museum's exhibit Louisiana Native Guard, the army regiment of black soldiers from Louisiana that fought for the Union, in the Battle of Port Hudson.

In 1953, he represented defendants in the Baton Rouge bus boycott, a model for later activism, after returning from World War II as a wounded veteran of D-Day. Skip to content Skip to site index U.S.

Ranking of the top 15 things to do in Baton Rouge. Travelers favorites include #1 Louisiana's Old State Capitol, ... a Civil War-era figure who kept diaries of her experiences throughout the war. ...

The First Civil Rights Bus Boycott Fifty years ago -- and two years before the famed bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. -- black citizens in Baton Rouge, La., staged what's believed to be the first ...