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Melvin Rambin, mayor of Monroe, 2000–2001; former banker in Baton Rouge, interred at Roselawn Memorial Park in Baton Rouge, R [80] Buddy Roemer, former governor and Baton Rouge businessman (b. 1943), I [81] Frank P. Simoneaux, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for East Baton Rouge Parish, 1972–1982; lawyer in Baton Rouge, D [82]
Baton Rouge (/ ˌ b æ t ən ˈ r uː ʒ / ⓘ BAT-ən ROOZH; French: Bâton-Rouge, pronounced [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ]; Louisiana Creole: Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It had a population of 227,470 at the 2020 United States census, making it Louisiana's second-most populous city. [4]
In 1953 Baton Rouge was the site of the first bus boycott by African Americans of the civil rights movement. On June 20, 1953 black citizens of Baton Rouge began an organized boycott of the segregated municipal bus system that lasted for eight days.
Then known as the Baton Rouge standard metropolitan area (or Baton Rouge SMA), it consisted of a single parish–East Baton Rouge–and had a population of 158,236. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Following a term change by the Bureau of the Budget (present-day U.S. Office of Management and Budget ) in 1959, the Baton Rouge SMA became the Baton Rouge standard ...
Johnnie Anderson Jones Sr. (November 30, 1919 – April 23, 2022) was an American politician, soldier, and civil rights attorney associated with the 1953 Baton Rouge bus boycott, the first anti-segregation bus boycott, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [2]
WBXH-CD (channel 39) is a low-power, Class A television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Media alongside CBS affiliate WAFB (channel 9). The two stations share studios on Government Street in downtown Baton Rouge, where WBXH-CD's transmitter is also located.
The Odell S. Williams Now And Then African-American History Museum or the Baton Rouge African-American Museum, is a non-profit [1] museum of African-American history and heritage located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, [2] United States. The museum is named for Odell S. Williams, an educator in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by occupation (8 C) Pages in category "People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total.