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Pinckney School
Artist: Hughes, Langston
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Pinckney School, 801 West Sixth St. (Intersection of Mississippi St. and Sixth St.) (1931)
This school site is where Langston Hughes attended elementary school from 1909 to 1910. The location is a few blocks from his grandmother’s house at 732 Alabama St. Today’s Pinckney School was built in 1931.
The first Pinckney School was on the front grounds of the present site. Hughes would have attended school in that building. Sixth St. was formerly known as Pinckney St.
When he was living near here, he writes of his education from his grandmother Mary Langston, who told him stories where always life moved, moved heroically toward an end.