Baton Rouge College

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]

Land for it was purchased by the Fourth District Baptist Association on Perkins Road.[5] The Fourth District Baptist Association published the Baton Rouge Banner newspaper.[6] L. F. Germany was its editor, publisher, and proprietor.[7] Joseph Samuel Clark's son Felton Grandison Clark attended the school and became an educator.[8]

References

  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. ^ South Baton Rouge. Arcadia. 2017. ISBN 978-1-4671-2472-0.
  6. ^ 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".
  7. ^ "Louisiana Newspapers, 1794-1940: A Union List of Louisiana Newspaper Files Available in Offices of Publishers, Libraries, and Private Collections in Louisiana". 1941.
  8. ^ Hurt, Leslie (July 7, 2011). "Felton Grandison Clark (1903-1970) •".