In the summer of 1953, McKinley High School became ground zero for planning the Baton Rouge bus boycott — the first civil rights protest of its kind, and one that ...

BATON ROUGE ... American Museum in honor of the educator. Both women advocated for all children to learn about African-American history. Williams was a 1939 graduate of McKinley Senior High School ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It’s amazing what you can learn about and fall in love with. If you ask Melvin Mitchell, Sr., he’ll tell you his love is McKinley High School. “We don’t want to ...

The damage done at McKinley High hit me ... to know that the school produced the first African-American city councilman, city court judge, district judge in East Baton Rouge Parish and the ...

President Barack Obama will speak at McKinley Senior High School when he makes his first trip to Baton Rouge as president ... and for years was the only African-American high school in this ...

Jetson authored the book, entitled South Baton Rouge. South Baton Rouge, sometimes referred to as Old South Baton Rouge, is an African American ... McKinley High School was the site of the nation ...

President Barack Obama will speak at the historic McKinley High School in Baton Rouge on Thursday ... part then to letting him see the first African-American president so it'll go down in history ...

Baker added, “I was so happy.” The four women have some vivid memories of their time at McKinley High, which is the oldest high school established for African American students in East Baton Rouge ...

In the summer of 1953, McKinley High School became ground zero for planning the Baton Rouge bus boycott — the first civil rights ... places significant to African-American history.