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Abraham Lincoln School

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{{For|the school in Chicago, Illinois|Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science}}Abraham Lincoln School was for freedmen and opened on October 3, 1865 in New Orleans on the campus of University of Louisiana (predecessor to Tulane University) after the American Civil War. It was featured on the cover of Harper's Weekly.^[1]^[2]

It opened under the supervision of Rev. Thomas W. Conway, an assistant commissioner of the Freedmen Bureau. Attendance was free at first and attracted some 750 students. At that time, the school had 14 teachers. When tuition charges were instituted, enrollment dropped by about half. About 75 percent of students were reported to be of "mixed blood".^[3] Mr. E.F. Waven, a Yale graduate from New York was the school's first principal. He was succeeded by M.A. Warren.^[3]

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1. ^{{cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-c6c7-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99|title=The "Abraham Lincoln school" for freedmen, New Orleans, Louisiana.|website=NYPL Digital Collections}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XJRIAQAAMAAJ|title=Harpers Weekly: A Journal of Civilization|date=24 February 1866|publisher=Living History, Incorporated|via=Google Books}}
3. ^¹{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=inAVAAAAIAAJ|title=The New York Teacher|date=24 February 1866|publisher=Joel Munsell|via=Google Books}}

5 : Tulane University|1865 establishments in Louisiana|Defunct schools in Louisiana|African-American history between emancipation and the Civil Rights Movement|Schools supported by the Freedmen's Bureau

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