New Lincoln School Building

African American, education, Edwardsville, Lincoln School

“New Lincoln School Building,” Madison Historical, accessed December 21, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/1.

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This photograph shows the second Lincoln School building, which was constructed in 1911. The Lincoln School was a public school for African Americans in Edwardsville. The school closed in 1950 due to the desegregation of the Edwardsville school system, and was renovated in 1952 as a Kindergarten through 6th grade school. The school closed permanently in 1972. Today, the building is home to the Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities.

• Madison County Historical Society

• education
• Edwardsville

After 1911

• Lincoln School in Edwardsville
• Edwardsville

• Photograph

• Black and white photographic print

• Edwardsville, Illinois

• MCHS-P-0001