Items and Collections

Date of Original
2002

Subject
Boycotts--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Buses--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Segregation in transportation--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Race discrimination--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Segregation--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Civil rights--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
African Americans--Civil rights--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
African Americans--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Civil rights movements--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Civil rights demonstrations--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
African American civil rights workers--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Civil rights workers--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge (La.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Direct action--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Race relations

Location
United States, Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, 30.53824, -91.09562
United States, Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, Baton Rouge, 30.44332, -91.18747

Medium
instructional materials
online exhibitions
oral histories (literary works)
transcripts
timelines (chronologies)
photographs
black-and-white photographs

Type
InteractiveResource

Description
Online exhibit about the 1953 bus boycott in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Baton Rouge was the site of the first successful bus boycott of the 1950s. This event became a blueprint for the more publicized boycott to take place two years later in Montgomery, Alabama, and it set the stage for desegregation in the Deep South.
The exhibit includes photographs, an historical timeline, and the personal recollections of some of the major figures behind the Baton Rouge bus boycott.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

Metadata URL
https://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/all/files/sc/exhibits/e-exhibits/boycott/index.html

Language
eng

Contributing Institution
LSU Libraries. Special Collections

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