Baton Rouge's Troubled Waters; Almenia Freeman Warren Interview
- Program
- Baton Rouge's Troubled Waters
- Raw Footage
- Almenia Freeman Warren Interview
- Producing Organization
- Louisiana Public Broadcasting
- Contributing Organization
- Louisiana Public Broadcasting (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/17-81jhbzht
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- Description
- Description
- An interview with Almenia Freeman Warren conducted for Baton Rouge\0xFFFDs Troubled Waters. Warren was inducted into the Louisiana High School Sports Hall of Fame for her performance as a swimming coach at Baton Rouge High School, where she won three state championships. She discusses the importance of the Brooks Park swimming pool to the African American community during segregation because it provided a safe place to swim; learning to swim and using the showers at the Brooks Park pool; testing Civil Rights laws as a teenager through lunch counter sit-ins; studying health and physical education at Southern University and participating in the May water shows; her career as an educator and high school swimming coach; the desegregation of the public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish; and the improvement in race relations.
- Genres
- Interview
- Topics
- History
- Subjects
- Civil Rights: Equal Rights; Civil Rights: Local Events; Civil Rights: School Desegregation; Civil Rights: African American Civil Rights; Civil Rights: White Resistance; Louisiana; Segregation; African Americans; Civil Rights; Desegregation; Education; Sports
- Rights
- Louisiana Educational Television Authority/Louisiana Public Broadcasting. Restricted Use. For permission or licensing information contact: comments@lpb.org
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:00:00
- Credits
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Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Interviewee: Warren, Alemenia Freeman
Producer: Kendrick, Dorothy
Producing Organization: Louisiana Public Broadcasting
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Louisiana Public Broadcasting
Identifier: LBRTW-30 (Louisiana Public Broadcasting Archives)
Format: Betacam: SP
Generation: Original
Duration: 00:30:00
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Louisiana Public Broadcasting
Identifier: LBRTW-30.mp4 (Louisiana Public Broadcasting Archives)
Format: video/mp4
Generation: Copy: Access
Duration: 00:00:00
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Louisiana Public Broadcasting
Identifier: LBRTW-30.mxf (Louisiana Public Broadcasting Archives)
Format: application/mxf
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Baton Rouge's Troubled Waters; Almenia Freeman Warren Interview,” Louisiana Public Broadcasting, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 27, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-17-81jhbzht.
- MLA: “Baton Rouge's Troubled Waters; Almenia Freeman Warren Interview.” Louisiana Public Broadcasting, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 27, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-17-81jhbzht>.
- APA: Baton Rouge's Troubled Waters; Almenia Freeman Warren Interview. Boston, MA: Louisiana Public Broadcasting, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-17-81jhbzht