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BATON ROUGE, La (press release) - Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser and the Louisiana Office of Tourism today opened the fourth marker along the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail. Located in AZ Young Park in Baton Rouge, this marker honors…

BATON ROUGE - Officials on Monday unveiled a new signpost in a park in the capital honoring the civil rights movement's first and longest march. The march from Bogalusa to Baton Rouge began on August 10, 1967 and stretched 105 miles in…

A 101-year World War II veteran injured on D-Day but kept fighting and then returning to Baton Rouge to fight as a frontline civil rights advocate was awarded a Purple Heart medal on Saturday for the im…