Bogalusa to Baton Rouge March

At the Capitol, A. Z. Young did not give a general speech. He read specifics: employment discrimination, and a call to elect ten Black candidates to local office in Bogalusa. He had come to hand grievances to Governor John McKeithen on the steps, and ten days on the road were the means of delivering them. Hicks and Jenkins walked with him. According to the Historical Marker Database, the protest helped bring better hiring and voting practices. This Louisiana Civil Rights Trail marker stands in the downtown park that bears Young's name.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Capitol Park Museum — steps away
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — steps away
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• Old State Capitol — 0.6 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 5.3 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• Pentagon Barracks — steps away
• Zachary Taylor — steps away
• Battle of Baton Rouge, 1862 — steps away
• Zachary Taylor Home Site — steps away