Sadie_Roberts-Joseph
Sadie Roberts-Joseph
American community activist (1944–2019)
Sadie Roberts-Joseph (1944 – July 12, 2019) was an American community activist and founder of the Baton Rouge Odell S. Williams Now & Then Museum of African-American History in 2001.[1] She was also the founder of a non-profit organization, Community Against Drugs and Violence (CADAV).[2] She organized the annual "Juneteenth Celebration" which commemorates the emancipation of slaves in the Southern United States.[3] She helped organize an annual Veterans Day celebration at the Port Hudson National Cemetery to honor veterans of all races who fought in the Civil War.[4]