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In Adickes v. S.H. Kress Co., the U.S. Supreme Court threw out convictions for vagrancy resulting from a sit-in at a Kress lunch counter in Mississippi. The Kress store in Baton Rouge was the site of that city's first civil rights sit-in. That event helped save it from demolition 45 years later. [5] In 1964, Genesco, Inc., acquired Kress. The ...
Pete Maravich Assembly Center - Court View. The Pete Maravich Assembly Center is a 13,215-seat multi-purpose arena in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.The arena opened in 1972. It was originally known as the LSU Assembly Center, but was renamed in honor of Pete Maravich, a Tiger basketball legend, shortly after his death in 1988.
Schwegmann Brothers Giant Supermarkets, commonly known as Schwegmann or colloquially Schwegmann's, is a defunct grocery store chain that served the New Orleans, Louisiana, metropolitan area and one location in Baton Rouge until 1997.
Baton Rouge: 460 (140) 34 1932 Tallest building in Baton Rouge, tallest building in Louisiana not located in New Orleans, and tallest capitol building in the United States. It is located on a 27-acre (110,000 m 2) tract, which includes the capitol gardens.
Louisiana Technology Park is a business incubator in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Also known as the Tech Park and LTP, the non-profit focuses on statewide economic development, nurturing early to mid-stage high-tech start-up companies and digital media firms. The Tech Park also offers meeting space for companies and businesses that are not housed ...
LSU food scientists claim they've developed a coating that can keep raw eggs safe and edible for up to seven weeks at room temperature. Fox News Digital spoke to one of the scientists.
Jared Lamb is head of BASIS Baton Rouge Mattera Charter School in Louisiana. He is known for posting content for educators on his TikTok account under the username @principal_lamb. In one of his ...
Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field is a baseball stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [2] It is the home stadium of the Louisiana State University Tigers baseball team. The stadium section (and LSU's previous baseball stadium 200 yards to the north) were named for Simeon Alex Box, an LSU letterman (1942), Purple Heart and Distinguished Service Cross recipient, who was killed in North Africa ...