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Washington, oh Washington, oh how we love you so...The history of Booker T. Washington High School

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From: Tri-State Defender
Date: 20040303
Author:Webb, Arthur L.

Webb, Arthur L.
Tri-State Defender
03-03-2004
In September of 1926, more than 300 wide-eyed and excited boys and girls
from the various grammar schools in Memphis entered "High School." They
were joined, of course, by the hundreds of others who were making the
transition as 10th and 11th graders from the old Kortrecht School.

The new school was the first four-year high school for African American
students in Memphis (Manassas, which was in the county outside the city,
already included a four-year curriculum).

Inscribed above the entrance of the new school was the name Negro
Industrial High School. ...

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