Draft:Baton Rouge College

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Instructions · What links here · Baton Rouge College (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 27 days ago by FloridaArmy (talk: D · +) · Last edited 27 days ago by KylieTastic

Baton Rouge Academy should redirect here

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

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b "1905 Baton Rouge Academy" – via DPLA.
^ ^a ^b "1906 Baton Rouge College". hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu.
^ "A History of Louisiana Negro Baptists, William Hicks | The Reformed Reader". www.reformedreader.org.
^ Hurt, Leslie (July 7, 2011). "Felton Grandison Clark (1903-1970) •".

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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.

[auto-2] "1905 Baton Rouge Academy" – via DPLA.

[auto1-3] "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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