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Rare 1973 PINEY WOODS Mississippi Black African American Boys School Glass Tray
Rare 1973 PINEY WOODS Mississippi Black African American Boys School Glass Tray
Rare 1973 PINEY WOODS Mississippi Black African American Boys School Glass Tray
Rare 1973 PINEY WOODS Mississippi Black African American Boys School Glass Tray
Rare 1973 PINEY WOODS Mississippi Black African American Boys School Glass Tray
Rare 1973 PINEY WOODS Mississippi Black African American Boys School Glass Tray

Rare 1973 PINEY WOODS Mississippi Black African American Boys School Glass Tray

$ 58.05

Availability: 32 in stock
  • Culture: Black Americana
  • Condition: VG, no chips or cracks

    Description

    Rare
    piece of
    Mississippi
    history, a
    glass tray
    advertising
    Piney Woods School
    in Piney Woods, Miss.  Piney Woods is an
    all boys
    ,
    all black
    ,
    segregated
    Christian boarding school. It is the largest school of it's kind in the United States.  The tray shows the history of the location of the school in pictures.  It was 1st used as a
    slave cabin
    prior to the Civil War and the site became the location of the school in
    1909
    , when founder
    Laurence C. Jones
    , an AA from Iowa founded the school there.  The Mississippi Blind School for Negros was added on site in the 1920s.  This tray shows it's history
    up until 1973
    .  Piney Woods is located in southern
    Rankin County.
    Piney Woods School was 64 years old when this tray was made, and it remains a boarding school serving young black males today, 50 years later.  It is the
    2nd oldest
    , continually-operated AA boarding school in the US.  The tray is about 7" x 9".
    Rare
    find.
    Same
    or next day shipping.  lgodg