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Baton Rouge College, originally Baton Rouge Academy, was a school for African Americans in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was Baptist affiliated.[1] It opened in 1893.

J. L. Croosley served as its first principal.[2] Joseph Samuel Clark also headed the school before leading Southern University.[3]

It was in a brick building. Bishop W. M. Taylor was a leader at the school.[4] A 1905 photo of persons at the school is extant.[2] A 1906 photo shows people in fromt of a building at the school.[3]

Joseph Samuel Clark's son Felton Grandison Clark attended the school and became an educator.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Education, United States Office of (August 17, 1915). "Report of the Federal Security Agency: Office of Education". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b "1905 Baton Rouge Academy" – via DPLA.
  3. ^ a b "1906 Baton Rouge College". hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu.
  4. ^ "A History of Louisiana Negro Baptists, William Hicks | The Reformed Reader". www.reformedreader.org.
  5. ^ Hurt, Leslie (July 7, 2011). "Felton Grandison Clark (1903-1970) •".

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