Wadleigh High School Yearbooks

Collection Data

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1931 - 1987
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc Ser.-M .W2437
Shelf locator: Sc MG 746
Shelf locator: STGP (N.Y. Wadleigh) The Owl
Topics
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
African American students
African American teachers
High school students, Black
Junior high school students
African American schools
High school students writings, American writings, American
Genres
Yearbooks
Notes
Biographical/historical: Wadleigh High School, located in Harlem, was founded as a high school for girls and moved to its current landmark site in 1902. Beginning in the 1920's Wadleigh High School began to accept black students and hire black faculty. By 1945 the student body was predominately black and by 1948 all the students were black. Reflecting the general shift towards co-education, Wadleigh was converted to a co-educational junior high school in 1954. The school underwent some renovation and alteration and reopened in 1956 as Wadleigh Junior High School 88. By 1995 the school was transformed to include grades six through twelve. The new entity incorporated three separate and specialized schools as the High School of Communications, Media and Technology with separate vice principals for its schools of writing and publishing, the arts, and science and technology. Later Wadleigh focused only on the performing and visual arts.
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12059230
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b17966051
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e4d4ebc0-f9b1-0133-12f9-00505686a51c
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