choirs from the school toured across the Southeast and Midwest. Legacy and reputation Lincoln School became well known for graduating a high proportion of students who went on to attain advanced degrees, a remarkable achievement for any school but more particularly for a segregated high school in rural Alabama. The school closed in 1970, when it was consolidated with the newly built and racially integrated Marion High School. One of the few buildings remaining on the campus site is the Phillips Memorial Auditorium, now on the National Register of Historic Places and the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage. The Lincoln High School Gymnasium was also added to the Alabama Register on February 29, 2005. Notable alumni Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr. Edythe Scott Bagley, educator, and civil rights activist William R. Pettiford, Birmingham minister and banker Jean Childs, wife of civil rights activist Andrew Young Odith Thelma Patton, mother of Bishop T. D. Jakes References Further reading Lincoln Normal School tribute site Bailey, Richard. Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders during the Reconstruction of Alabama 1867–1878. Childs, Idella J. (1976) "Lincoln Normal School" History of the Baptists in Perry County Lincoln Normal School Scrapbooks, 1910s-1920s, The A. S. Williams III Americana Collection, University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama (digitized content) School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama Defunct schools in Alabama Defunct private universities and colleges in Alabama Educational institutions established in 1867 Historically segregated African-American schools in Alabama African-American history of Alabama National Register of Historic Places in Perry County, Alabama Neoclassical architecture in Alabama Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage Schools in Perry County, Alabama Marion, Alabama 1867 establishments in Alabama