Lincoln School History

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="0a6c8193.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#996633" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Lincoln School History<B>   </B></FONT><A HREF="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Carthage"><U><B>Carthage School</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lincoln School"><U><B>Lincoln School</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> The Carthage Board of Education provided a school for black students in starting in 1869 but never found a permanent</div> <div> location for the school.  By 1880 representatives of the African-American communited petitioned the board for a better </div> <div> school and in 1881 the Lincoln School was opened.</div> <bR> <div> Named in honor of President Abraham Lincoln, the school was located at the southwest corner of Garrison Avenue and High Street.  </div> <div> The Lincoln School house contained two classrooms, originally one for boys and one for girls.  During the 1881-1882 school term, </div> <div> 80 elementary school pupils attended classes there under the instruction of B. F. Adams.  </div> <bR> <div> In 1914 a larger school house was needed and voters approved a $10,000 bond issue to finance a new school that </div> <div> would be located at the corner of River and Sixth Streets.  The school opened in 1915 but the building burned two </div> <div> years later.  At this time, students were sent to the old Washington School house on Fulton Street.  In May 1918, the Board of</div> <div> Education awarded a contract to Love-Martin Construction Company of Joplin for the construction of a new Lincoln building on </div> <div> the foundation of the one lost to fire.  The new building was quite similar to the former building and was used from 1918-1955</div> <div> as the sole site of free public education for blacks in the Carthage area.  </div> <bR> <div> The bulk of the curriculum was at the elementary school level, with some vocational training included.  Under segreation, no high </div> <div> school opportunity was available locally to black students.  In 1953 the Carthage High School was opened to black students</div> <div> and the elementary schools were intergrated in 1954.  The Lincoln School was closed in 1955 with Miss Eula B. Scott and Mrs.</div> <div> Kathryn Redmond the final members of the faculty.  Mrs. Redmond, who served as Lincoln's principal, remained as an elementary</div> <div> teacher with the Carthage school district, becoming the first black teacher in the integrated schools.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> For more information, please visit a site created by The Carthage Powers Museum: <A HREF="http://theclio.com/tour/925/4/reverse " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://theclio.com/tour/925/4/reverse "><U>theclio.com/tour/925/4/reverse</U></A> & <A HREF="https://theclio.com/entry/45787" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://theclio.com/entry/45787"><U>theclio.com/entry/45787</U></A><A HREF="https://theclio.com/entry/45787" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://theclio.com/entry/45787"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Additional information from an article written by Carthage Press Historian, Marvin L. VanGilder, January 18, 1988.</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1b1ef7d0.png" border=0 width="1007" height="1661" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>