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We have some limited information on individual segregated schools. As we have just created this page, it will take sone time to find and link the various pages here. Almost all of the schools were limited to the the 11 states of the former southern Confederacy. The southern states had the weakest public school system in th country, but the funding and condition in tyhe segregated colored schools were far beklow the standards in the white schools. The idea of 'sepsrate but equal' was alantant lie from the beginning.
We have not been able to find out much infomation about Annie Davis or the school. We believe it my be a school named after Annie Davis rather than founded by her. We think Annie Davis may be the Maryland slave that wrote to President Lincoln asking if she was really free. We note a photograph of a class at the Annie Davis School near Tuskegee, Alabama taken about 1902. It appears to be a school asociated assiciated with George Washington Carver's Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Normal means teacher training. The African-American children are studying studying corn and cotton. Carver is best known for developing techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton which was the cash crop of the South. He advocated farmers to grow alternative crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes which might help restore the soil. The photograph was taken by the important turn-of-the century photograper Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952).
This Lincoln School, we think the first one, was founded (1866) after the Civil War. West Virginia was part of Virgina, but separated during the War and supported the Federal Government. Even so, after the War as they established a public school system, they segregated black and white children. The Lincoln Lincoln School was the African-American segregated school of Ohio County. Here we have a school portrait taken of a class and their teacher. The source suggest it was tajken in the 1880s. And the lack Fauntleroy paraphenalia might suggest the erly 18890s. The teacher's dress styles, epecially the destinctive puffed sleeves is a good indicator of the 1890s as are the knee-length knee pats. The length of the knee pabts, however, sucggets the portrit coukd have been taken in the 90s. Most of the boys wear suits. The girls wear long dresses, several have pinafores. The children look to be about 10 years old which would mean 5th grade. The school remained segregated until the Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstituional (1954).
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