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The West Florida Controversy included two border disputes that involved Spain and the United States in relation to the region known as West Florida over a period of 37 years. The first dispute commenced immediately after Spain received the colonies of West and East Florida from the Kingdom of Great Britain following the American Revolutionary War.
Johnnie Jones (lawyer) Johnnie Anderson Jones Sr. (November 30, 1919 – April 23, 2022) was an American politician, soldier, and civil rights attorney associated with the 1953 Baton Rouge bus boycott, the first anti-segregation bus boycott, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [2] This was a precursor to the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott led by Martin ...
Coordinates: 30.414333°N 91.182672°W. LSU Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes. The LSU Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes, on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is located in the Gym/Armory building. [1] [2] [3] The building opened in 1930 and was completely renovated ...
Cenikor Foundation. The Cenikor Foundation is a nonprofit drug rehabilitation and mental health organization based in Houston, Texas, operating residential treatment centers and outpatient services for adults and adolescents in Texas and Louisiana. [1] Cenikor used to provide treatment based on the therapeutic community approach, but now ...
55,331. Based aircraft. 240. Source: Federal Aviation Administration [1] Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport ( IATA: BTR, ICAO: KBTR, FAA LID: BTR ), also known as Ryan Field, is a public use airport located four miles (7 km) north of the central business district of Baton Rouge, a city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Cox v. Louisiana , 379 U.S. 536 (1965), is a United States Supreme Court case based on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution . It held that a state government cannot employ " breach of the peace " statutes against protesters engaging in peaceable demonstrations that may potentially incite violence.
The Battle of Kock’s Plantation (also spelled Cox’s Plantation and Saint Emma Plantation) was fought July 12–13, 1863, in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, during the American Civil War. [2] [3] It was part of a campaign entitled "Taylor's Operations in West Louisiana (1863)." The Confederate States Army victory left them in control of much of ...
17,300. Location. The Huey P. Long - O.K. Allen Bridge (locally known as the Old Bridge) is a truss cantilever bridge over the Mississippi River carrying US 190 ( Airline Highway) and one rail line between East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana and West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana . Although the bridge is named after former Louisiana governors ...