Coach Carl Emerson Stewart

"Coach Stewart was born in Baton Rouge, where he completed his education in the public schools.  He earned his undergraduate degree at Grambling State University, the Master’s degree at Louisiana State University and did further study at the Universities of Iowa and Texas.  Coach Stewart began his professional career as a principal in Morehouse Parish.  He is most noted however for his long and distinguished career as a teacher of English, journalism and physical education and as basketball coach at McKinley High School.  He posted a career record of 425 victories as compared to 143 losses. He also won four state championships.  After leaving McKinley, he assumed the head basketball coach position at Southern University.  During his ten year stint in that post, he won three Southwest Athletic Conference (SWAC) Championships and was named Coach of the Year on three occasions.  Nine of his players were drafted into the National Basketball Association. 

He was also the retired director of public information for the Minority Information Bureau under former Gov. Edwin Edwards' administration.  He was past president of the Baton Rouge Jazz Society and a member of Magnolia Baptist Church.

His honors and awards include a grant from the “Wall Street Journal.”  This grant enabled him to study journalism at the University of Texas."

He died April 18, 1997, at age 70, in Baton Rouge.  He is survived by his wife, Audreye Norflis Stewart and two children, Carlette Stewart Boyd and Carl E. Stewart, Jr.

Source:  “The First Annual South Baton Rouge Black History Recognition Program”- Author – Ms. Helen Turner Rutledge, February 27, 1993 and The Advocate Newspaper - Obituary April 26, 1997