Margaret Knox Junior High (JHS 99)
1925 - 2006
Margaret Knox Junior High School (also known as Public School 99) was a school active between the years of 1923 and 2006. It was one of the many schools built by the notorious C.B.J. Snyder, who between the years 1891 and 1923 served as the Superintendent of School Buildings for the New York City Board of Education. Students at the school in its early years described it as “a very rigorous all-black school” in which most of the teachers were Jewish. In 1965, the school was subject to a boycott on the grounds that it was segregated, which led Black and Puerto Rican students to argue that they were receiving a lower quality of education. Although the school closed in 2006, the building was divided into three new schools: Success Academy Harlem 3 Lower, Renaissance Charter High School for Innovators, and M.S. 224 Manhattan East School for Arts & Academics.
Details
- Category
- School
- Instructional Level
- Middle/Junior High School
- Audience
- Children, Teenagers
- Tags
- CBJSnyder, deconsolidation, boycott, segregation, closure
Location
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410 E 100th St, New York, NY 10029, USA? - ?
References
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“Back to School: Exploring Historic Schools in East Harlem.” Urban Archive. Landmark East Harlem, September 20, 2021. https://www.urbanarchive.org/stories/V3XUerNc9nJ.
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Tolchin, Martin. "Boycott of Schools is extended to Junior High in East Harlem." New York Times, Jan 30, 1965.