Mrs. Pinkston-Mitchell's Music Students

Mrs. Pinkston-Mitchell's Music Students

Florence Pinkston-Mitchell was a prominent piano teacher in North Omaha for many years during the mid-twentieth century. Art and music lessons were an important part of a child’s education for most middle-class African Americans. Over the years, Mrs. Pinkston-Mitchell taught hundreds of local children to play music.

Great Plains Black History Museum, North Omaha History Harvest, 2011

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Omaha (Neb.)