Pillow Academy
Pillow Academy is an independent, co-educational college preparatory school in unincorporated Leflore County, Mississippi, near Greenwood. It was founded by white parents in 1966 as a segregation academy to avoid having their children attend school with black children.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Widespread Nightmare, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Florewood State Park.
Florewood State Park
Park
Florewood State Park, also known as Florewood River Plantation State Park, is a public recreation area in the U.S. state of Mississippi, operated by the Leflore County Board of Supervisors.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greenwood and Itta Bena.
Greenwood
Photo: Trgiii, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Greenwood is a city in Mississippi, located at the junction of the rivers Tallahatchie and Yalobusha, from whereon after it's called the Yalobusha. It's known for its extensive cotton production and remembered as one of the centres of conflict during the Civil Rights era.
Itta Bena
Village
Photo: Chillin662, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Itta Bena is a city in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,049 at the 2010 census. The town's name is derived from the Choctaw phrase iti bina, meaning "forest camp". Itta Bena is situated 4½ miles southwest of Pillow Academy.
Pillow Academy
- Type: School
- Description: private school in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States
- Category: education
- Location: Leflore County, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.53429° or 33° 32′ 3″ northLongitude
-90.25536° or 90° 15′ 19″ westElevation
131 feet (40 metres)Open location code
865FGPMV+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 357965366OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=school
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Russian—“Pillow Academy” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “اكاديمية الوساده”
- French: “Pillow Academy”
- Japanese: “ピロウ・アカデミー”
- Russian: “Пиллоу академия”
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