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 ...

McKinley was placed on the historic register in 1981 as the first high school ... the McKinley Alumni Association bought the notable edifice from the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board.

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 ...

When the current school year ends on May 23, nine public schools in Baton Rouge will ... If it became an alumni center, it would follow the path taken by the original McKinley High, which was ...

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.