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Little Professor of Piney Woods Builds Dream School
Laurence Jones, a Missouri born, Iowa educated Black man in Mississippi, transforms a ruined cabin and $1.65 into Piney Woods School. He gathers white and Black support, floods of small gifts, and a thousand-strong mass meeting to create a lasting educational institution for Black youths in the Piney Woods.
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Laurence C. Jones
Mississippi
Missouri
Jones
Deep South
University of Iowa
Marshalltown
Iowa
Tuskegee
Laurence Jones
Piney Woods
Moses
Black Belt
Noblesse Oblige
Jackson
Mark Hopkins
Harvard
Ed” Taylor
Taylor
Dulaney Hall
Scott Count
Cornell