McKinley High School Museum Tells Remarkable Story of Black History
BLACK HISTORY MCK Museum “OUR HISTORY, OUR PEOPLE, OUR STORY” Quoted Content from WBRZ. 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 forget the story that got […]
City’s First Black Judge Remembers Long Road to the Bench
INTRODUCING JUDGE FREDDIE PITCHER JR. FIRST BLACK JUDGE IN LOUISIANA Quoted Content from WBRZ. Louisiana’s first Black judge, Isreal M. Augustine, was appointed to the bench in 1969. The next year in 1970, in the city of New Orleans, Dutch Morial was the state’s first elected Black judge. But it would be more than a […]
