A good rule of thumb about any school in the South, from my experience: if it’s named Abraham Lincoln School, then it was African American. When I was working on my thesis about a black community in Tallahassee, FL, I was reading through the school board minutes, c.1895, and came across a little nugget that conveyed everything it needed to very concisely. Referring to the black high school, the minutes said, “the Negro high school, which they call Lincoln.”
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I think it is in Leland, Mississippi. Constructed 1954. Conjectured Architect Kaplan & Dickman.
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Good catch! I was enjoying the silence on this one!
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Unfortunately, work has totally gotten in the way of the pleasures of my life lately.
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It was completed in December 1954 (or at least slated for completion then) and constructed by Wetmore & Parman, Inc. of Jackson.
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I really like the fact that the banners are secured at the mortar joints as they should be and not to the bricks.
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Spoken as only a brick connoisseur could!
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:-D Hey banners are signs aren’t they?
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If that observation was an attempt at getting a point for talking about the signs. Well, ok, I’m easy.
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Not really, but ill take a point.
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I also found a couple of sources that indicate it was originally constructed for African American students. Any corroboration for that known?
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It is possible. The other school complex in Leland is labeled as the white school in the MDAH HRI,
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A good rule of thumb about any school in the South, from my experience: if it’s named Abraham Lincoln School, then it was African American. When I was working on my thesis about a black community in Tallahassee, FL, I was reading through the school board minutes, c.1895, and came across a little nugget that conveyed everything it needed to very concisely. Referring to the black high school, the minutes said, “the Negro high school, which they call Lincoln.”
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