When officials in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refused to make black history part of the mandatory school curriculum, Sadie Roberts-Joseph created a museum dedicated to African-American heritage, friends say
Today, the Baton Rouge African-American Museum occupies a four-room building under Interstate 10. It was first named for educator Odell S. Williams, whose paintings of black inventors adorn the museum's walls. A bus outside tells the story of the Baton Rouge bus boycott during the Civil Rights era. A room inside has pictures of Barack Obama's inaugurations.
But she was historian at heart, finding ways to make family gatherings or holidays into a lesson."She was the teacher of our family, always educating us, always making us aware of things," LeDuff said."If you were saying something that wasn't factual, she would make sure that you know what you were saying is wrong.
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