Pinellas High School
 | This article, Pinellas High School, has recently been created via the Articles for creation process. Please check to see if the reviewer has accidentally left this template after accepting the draft and take appropriate action as necessary.
Reviewer tools: Inform author |
| This article, Pinellas High School, has recently been created via the Articles for creation process. Please check to see if the reviewer has accidentally left this template after accepting the draft and take appropriate action as necessary.
Reviewer tools: Inform author |
Comment: Why the hell do you submit these articles, after spending so many years over here? ∯WBGconverse 06:28, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
Pinellas High School was a public junior/ senior high school from 1934 until 1968 in Clearwater, Florida. It served African Americans from the surrounding area of northern Pinellas County including Largo, Clearwater, Dunedin, Safety Harbor and Tarpon Springs during the era of segregation. It was at 1220 Palmetto Street.[1]
The neighborhood of Dansville, named for Dan Henry, was one of the areas African Americans lived and were able to buy homes. Residents included orange grove workers. Williams Elementary school was open to African Americans up through 6th grade and then Pinellas High School.[2] During the segregation era, Gibbs High School served African American students in southern Pinellas County.[3]
An elementary school in Clearwater was named for a former principal of the school and is now a museum of African American history, the Pinellas County African American History Museum.
History
The school opened on Madison Avenue. After he retired from serving as the president of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Richard V. Moore taught social studies and coached at Pinellas High School from 1932 until 1934.[4] In 1954, a new school building opened on Palmetto Street, where Clearwater Intermediate is now.[5]
Alumni
- Ivory "Dwike" Mitchell Jr., Jazz pianist[1]
- Calvin Harris, (class of 1959) former Pinellas County Commissioner[5]
- Christine Wigfall Morris, the first African American librarian in Clearwater[6]
References
- ^ a b McCarthy, Kevin M. (March 18, 2007). "African American Sites in Florida". Pineapple Press Inc – via Google Books.
- ^ Varn, Kathryn (June 16, 2018). "Black neighborhood hopes progress is kind to its past". AP NEWS.
- ^ Newspapers, KATHRYN WILLIAMS Tampa Bay. "It's Union Academy, not the CAP Center". Suncoast News.
- ^ https://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/197005602/7
- ^ a b "Remembering Pinellas High School". Clearwater, FL Patch. February 28, 2012.
- ^ "Women of Library History". Women of Library History.
| This article, Pinellas High School, has recently been created via the Articles for creation process. Please check to see if the reviewer has accidentally left this template after accepting the draft and take appropriate action as necessary.
Reviewer tools: Inform author |