Title	Lincoln School: classroom
Creator(s)	West, Carroll Van
Date	1992
Coverage	1990-1999
Property name	Lincoln School
Property type	School
National Register Reference	93000648 listed July 15, 1993
Community Name	Pikeville, Bledsoe County, TN
Description	Color photograph of a classroom with eight desks facing a blackboard on the wall and a green teacher's desk at the front of the room. Chairs line the border of the room. A portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. is on the blackboard and a painting of two farmers above the blackboard. The wall are covered in pressed tin, painted white.
Historical Notes	Built 1925-26, the Lincoln School was a public school for African Americans and the only school built in Bledsoe County with funding from the Rosenwald Fund. It followed the four-teacher school plan specified by the Foundation. The Rosenwald program emphasized self-help and industrial education and the well-equipped school offered a new educational experience to area children. Lincoln School was the only school for African American children in Pikeville until 1965, following the court-ordered end to segregated facilities.
Collection Name	Southern History Documentary Projects
Subject-LCSH	African American schools -- Tennessee
Subject-TGM	Schools
Type	Still image
Genre	Photograph
Extent	Electronic
Copyright status	Copyright of the creator. Reproduced with permission
Contributing Institution	Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Conditions for use	Credit Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University

Lincoln School: classroom

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