Lincoln School was built after two events. The first event was statewide — the adoption in 1866 of a new Constitution for Missouri that mandated that any school district having over 15 children had to provide free public education in separate schools for white and Black children. The second event was local — the 1867 contentious tax levy election held to raise the tax money needed to build two new schools in Sedalia.
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