Mary Anne’s First Class: The Lincoln School
Mary Anne’s First Class: The Lincoln School
Mary Anne’s First Class: The Lincoln School follows Mary Anne, a young Black teacher in the early 1930s, as she arrives in West Plains, Missouri, to teach at a segregated, single-room schoolhouse on “The Hill.” Fresh out of university and full of hope, Mary Anne quickly encounters the realities of Jim Crow education: hand-me-down books, too few desks and scarce supplies. As she works to teach both children and their parents the importance of education and its long-term value, Mary Anne faces the challenge of bridging a divide shaped by generations of limited access to resources.
Mary Anne’s First Class: The Lincoln School focuses on the everyday injustices faced by Black communities in the segregated South, where educational inequality was enforced through neglect rather than absence. Set in Jim Crow Missouri, the story shows how systemic discrimination shaped students’ access to supplies and opportunities.
ISBN: 978-1-962633-19-2
