East Baton Rouge Archives

Government & Politics

Alvin King

Alvin King served as governor of Louisiana for five months during a political power struggle between Huey P. Long and Lieutenant Governor Paul Cyr.

Carl Brasseaux

Art

Andrew Lytle

Based in Baton Rouge, early photographer Andrew Lytle spent a half-century chronicling the quotidian and exceptional events and faces of the city.

John H. Lawrence

History

Baton Rouge Bus Boycott

The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott was an organized, eight-day long protest of the segregated seating system on city buses.

Christina Melton

Music

Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra

The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra is eighty-five to ninety musicians strong, and plays more than sixty concerts in twelve different venues annually.

Ron Bermingham

Sports & Recreation

Bob Pettit

When Louisiana's Bob Pettit retired from the National Basketball Association in 1965, he was widely regarded as an all-time great and had earned two Most Valuable Player awards.

Ryan Whirty

Music

Buddy Guy

Guitarist and singer George "Buddy" Guy, who was born in Louisiana, is the major living link to the electric Chicago blues sound of the 1950s and 1960s.

Paul Kauppila

Literature

Cleanth Brooks

Cleanth Brooks, one of the foremost American literary critics of the twentieth century, spent fifteen years as a professor in the English Department at Louisiana State University (LSU).

Vince Brewton

Delphine Dupuy was a civil rights activist in Baton Rouge who was one of the founding members of the Baton Rouge branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1929.

Lee Sartain

Music

Dinos Constantinides

Dinos Constantinides' orchestral works have been performed to rave reviews by symphony orchestras throughout the world, including premiers at Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Alfred E. Lemmon