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Taking a Stand in Baton Rouge [1] is a photograph of Ieshia Evans, a nurse from Pennsylvania, being arrested by police officers dressed in riot gear during a protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on 9 July 2016. The protest began in the aftermath of the shooting by police of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
The Atlanta riot had broad participation from people across the United States. Six people—most of whom were White and from outside of the U.S. state of Georgia [195] —were arrested and charged criminally for actions during the January 21 riot. [196] [197]
While in college, Connerly was student body president, was active as a Young Democrat, and joined Delta Phi Omega, a white fraternity. [6] Later he was made an honorary member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. During his college years, Connerly campaigned against housing discrimination and helped to get a bill passed by the state legislature ...
Archbishop Shaw High School in Marrero, Louisiana, ... family members placed a photo of her up at the memorial, WWL-TV of New Orleans reported. Polk, a New Orleans resident, is the last of the 14 ...
ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar was captured in new images strolling around New Orleans a little over an hour before he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd celebrating the New Year on Bourbon ...
When whites riot : writing race and violence in American and South African cultures (2001) online; Werner, John Melvin. "Race riots in the United States during the age of Jackson: 1824-1849" (PhD dissertation, Indiana University; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1972. 7314619). Williams, John A.
Filmore Watt Daniels [sic] and Thomas F. Richards [sic] were lynched near Mer Rouge, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana by black robed Ku Klux Klan members on August 24, 1922. . According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary they were the 47th and 48th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United Sta
Louisiana state Rep. Charles Anthony Owen grew up in Leesville, Louisiana, with Peak. The world is “missing a sweet soul who cared about people,” Owen said. “She was a devout follower of the ...