Franklin Graded School

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While white students had access to excellent educational facilities, like Franklin Graded School, African American students studied in a frame school building until Lincoln School was constructed in 1940.
Courtesy of Kentucky Historical Society

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By Tim Talbott
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…