Baton Rouge College, originally Baton Rouge Academy, was a school for African Americans in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was Baptist affiliated. It opened in 1893.
J. L. Croosley served as its first principal. Joseph Samuel Clark also headed the school before leading Southern University.
It was in a brick building. Bishop W. M. Taylor was a leader at the school. A 1905 photo of persons at the school is extant. A 1906 photo shows people in fromt of a building at the school.
Land for it was purchased by the Fourth District Baptist Association on Perkins Road. The Fourth District Baptist Association published the Baton Rouge Banner newspaper. L. F. Germany was its editor, publisher, and proprietor. Joseph Samuel Clark's son Felton Grandison Clark attended the school and became an educator.
References
- 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.
- ^ "1905 Baton Rouge Academy" – via DPLA.
- ^ "1906 Baton Rouge College". hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu.
- "A History of Louisiana Negro Baptists, William Hicks | The Reformed Reader". www.reformedreader.org.
- South Baton Rouge. Arcadia. 2017. ISBN 978-1-4671-2472-0.
- McMullan, T. N. (1965). "Louisiana Newspapers, 1794-1961: A Union List of Louisiana Newspaper Files Available in Public, College, and University Libraries in Louisiana. Editor: T. N. McMullan in Cooperation with the Louisiana Library Association".
- "Louisiana Newspapers, 1794-1940: A Union List of Louisiana Newspaper Files Available in Offices of Publishers, Libraries, and Private Collections in Louisiana". 1941.
- Hurt, Leslie (July 7, 2011). "Felton Grandison Clark (1903-1970) •".
 | This Louisiana school-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |