About Us? Boggs Academy, a Presbyterian school founded in 1906 in Keysville, Burke County,
Georgia, under the aegis of the Board of Missions for Freedmen, Presbyterian
Church in the U.S.A., was an outstanding college-preparatory academy for African
Americans. The school was closed in 1984. In its seventy-eight-year history
Boggs Academy grew from meager beginnings to an institution of acknowledged
educational excellence, recognized by the Southern Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools, which accredited the school in 1943.
The
primary objective and purpose of the Boggs Academy National Alumni
Association, Inc. (BANAA, Inc.) shall be to advance the legacy of Boggs
Academy through charitable, educational, religious, and/or scientific
means in addition to establishing, encouraging, and maintaining
beneficial relationship between its alumni.
