Manassas High School is in
Memphis, Tennessee. It was established in 1900. As of 2022 the school had about 420 students 96 percent of whom were black.[2] The high school produced several prominent jazz musicians.[3][4] In the 1920s, it was one of two high schools in Memphis for African Americans.[5]
It received
Rosenwald School funding. Cora Taylor was its principal.[6] In 1940 it was listed as a "Negro" school that taught Service Occupations.[7] In 1954 it was listed as instructing auto mechanics.[8] In 1946 the Tennessee Negro Athletic Association met in Nashville with the school's J. A. Hayes leading it.[9] Boxer
Joe Louis attended the school's 1948 football game against
Booker T. Washington High School.[10]
In 1952 a study of the intelligence of the school's students was published.[11] In 1953, a report on the reasons for drop-outs given by students, teachers and parents from the school was published.[12] In 1971 a study of female students attitude towards physical education at the school was published.[13] Louis B. Hobson was principal in 1972 when plans to make it a middle school in the wake of desegregation were proposed.[14]
Robert Samuel White Sr. wes the school's principal for 14 years during the 1980s and 1990s.[15]
The 2011 documentary film Undefeated is about the school's football team and its former coach,
Bill Courtney.[16][17][18] Its football team has made 12 championship appearances and won twice.[19]