Baton Rouge African American Museum Founder Discovered Useless
Baton Rouge is heartbroken after neighborhood icon, Sadie Roberts-Joseph was discovered lifeless within the trunk of a automobile Friday afternoon.
WAFB experiences, the Baton Rouge Police Division found Roberts-Joseph physique three.5 miles from her residence, at roughly three:45 p.m. on Friday, July 12.
Officers have but to say how she was found, and the reason for the 75-year-old’s dying is unknown.
Because the founder and curator of the non-profit Odell S. Williams Now & Then Museum of African American Historical past, Louisiana natives are damage by the loss.
“My coronary heart is empty … as I discovered final night time that Ms. Sadie Roberts Joseph was discovered murdered!” State Rep. C. Denise Marcelle wrote in a Fb submit. “This lady was superb and cherished her historical past. She by no means bothered anybody, simply wished to broaden her African American Museum downtown, the place she frequently hosted the Juneteenth Celebration yearly. I cherished working along with her and am saddened by her dying.”
Not solely was Ms. Sadie a peace advocate along with her group, CADAV (Neighborhood In opposition to Medicine and Violence), she additionally used her museum to assist others. Even internet hosting a bicycle giveaway on the African American Museum.
Positioned within the traditionally black neighborhood of Outdated South Baton Rouge, Roberts-Joseph based The Odell S. Williams Now and Then African-American Historical past Museum, now often called the Baton Rouge African-American Historical past Museum, in 2001.
The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Workplace reportedly will conduct an post-mortem to find out the precise reason behind Roberts-Joseph’s dying.
