Detail View: From the Ground Up: Pinckney School
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Record ID:
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fgu.lhl.0672.jpg
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Type:
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photographs
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Series Name:
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From the Ground Up: Langston Hughes in Lawrence, Kansas
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Title:
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Pinckney School
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Creator Name:
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Denise Low
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Creator Role:
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photographer
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Date:
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2004
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Address:
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801 West Sixth St., Lawrence, Kansas
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Latitude (GPS):
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38.58.423N
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Latitude (DD):
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38.973716666666667
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Latitude (DMS):
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38° 58' 25.38"
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Longitude (GPS):
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95.14.659W
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Longitude (DD):
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-95.244316666666667
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Longitude (DMS):
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-95° 14' 39.54"
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Map Link:
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Description:
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Pinckney School entrance, 810 West Sixth St. (1931) Pinckney students placed markers at the home sites where Langston Hughes lived and gravestones for his grandparents (donated by Rumsey Funeral Home, also on Sixth St.). According to the school website, a celebration in 1991 included dedication of a Langston Hughes Library for Children at Pinckney, and Hughes's biographer, Arnold Rampersad, attended. Mary J. Dillard was Hughes's teacher. At that time Lawrence schools were segregated up to grade four, although the neighborhood was not segregated.
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