Abraham Lincoln School

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.

Thomas W. Conway, an assistant commissioner of the Freedmen Bureau.

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.