What Happened When Kirksville Schools Desegregated?
After Brown v. Board in 1954, Kirksville closed segregated Lincoln School and moved its remaining Black students into the public-school system that fall.
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Lincoln School: Recovering the History of Kirksville’s Segregated Black School
Kirksville’s Lincoln School served Black students under segregation, with the surviving 1914 building at 907 S. Wabash representing a longer educational history that began decades earlier.