Douglass School means a lot for Pittsburg’s history

From Staff Reports

Despite starting out as a social gathering, the Douglass Alumni have turned the every two year event into a community mainstay. 
“I hope our legacy is that we are the generation who made a difference,” said Dorothy Drayton, an alumnus of Douglass. “I want to make a difference here in Pittsburg.”
The original school, at this time unnamed, was organized sometime in the early 1900s, out by Pine Bluff Baptist Church and was destroyed by a fire. The school was rebuilt on Franklin Street, where it stood until 1932, when another fire destroyed the school. 
After being rebuilt, this time on south Terry Street, the school was christened Douglass School, in honor of Frederick Douglass. 
“My very first memory of Douglass was when I started school in 1960,” said Ruth Burton, an alumnus who lives in Dallas. “The campus was beautiful. We did not have landscaped lawns that were beautiful in the country. I was just enthralled.”

See full story in the Feb. 23 edition of THE GAZETTE.