A Rosenwald School
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Many of Kentucky’s African American schools were funded by the Rosenwald program, like Cadentown School, shown here, in Fayette County. Lincoln School, however, was not. Lincoln School’s construction was funded in part by the Works Progress Administration and the Franklin City Board of Education.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Lincoln School
Historical Marker #2345 in Franklin remembers the Lincoln School, which served as that city’s African American school from 1940-1965.
During the “Jim Crow” era, funding for African American schools…