On this day in Alabama history: Lincoln School in Perry County was incorporated
Lincoln Normal School was founded in Perry County in 1867 by formerly enslaved African Americans. The school was soon designated a state teaching institution and eventually was moved to Alabama's capital city, Montgomery, where it became Alabama State University in 1969. (From Encyclopedia of Alabama, Courtesy of Samford University Special Collections)
July 18, 1867
The Lincoln School in Perry County was incorporated as one of the state’s first institutions for the education of African-Americans after the Civil War. Founded by the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen’s Bureau, the school taught black students for more than 100 years until the state consolidated it into the racially integrated Marion High School in 1970. The school also included a teacher-training program from 1874 to 1887, when the program moved to Montgomery and later became Alabama State University. One of the school’s few remaining buildings, the Phillips Memorial Auditorium, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
Read more at Encyclopedia of Alabama.
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