Draft:Baton Rouge College

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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. It opened in 1893.

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

A 1905 photo of persons at the school is extant. A 1906 photo shows people in fromt of a building at the school.

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