Roberts-Joseph also organized an annual Juneteenth festival at the museum. She told The Advocate during the 2018 celebration that she led a “rebirth of Juneteenth” in 1991.
The day commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union soldiers delivered belated news of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation to Texas. The document had been signed more than two years earlier, on Jan. 1, 1863 — declaring that all slaves in the South were free.Details surrounding the 75-year-old activist’s death remain scant, beyond that her body was found in the trunk of a car around three miles from her home.
The museum, now known as the Baton Rouge African-American History Museum, features exhibits that range from African art to black inventors to a 1953 bus from the city’s civil rights boycotts.The Advocate in 2016. “Across racial lines, the community can help to build a better Baton Rouge, a better state and a better nation.”Roberts-Joseph grew up in Woodville, Mississippi before moving to Baton Rouge, where she attended Baton Rouge Vocational-Technical School and Southern University. In addition to her work as a respiratory therapy technician, she held several volunteer roles within the black community, and served as a minority business officer for the city.
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