Bird's Eye View of Lincoln School Sedalia, Missouri, 1869

ID: 362 ~ Source: Library of Congress ~ Creator: University of Central Missouri Department of History, Glyne Gee ~ Date: 1869

This file appears in: Sedalia Missouri Lincoln/C. C. Hubbard School

Bird's Eye View of Lincoln School Sedalia, Missouri, 1869 — Ruger, A. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4164s.pm004490/

Highlighted Area of the First Building of the Public Lincoln School for African American Children of Elementary Grades in 1868

This file appears in: Sedalia Missouri Lincoln/C. C. Hubbard School

Sedalia Missouri Lincoln/C. C. Hubbard School

By The University of Central Missouri Department of History, Glyne Gee

Before the Civil War, a Missouri law prohibited education for African Americans. After emancipation in 1863, the state’s constitution was revised that allowed at least twenty black children from the ages of six to twenty that lived within the…