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Commencement announcement for Hamilton High School, Memphis, Tennessee, to be held at Metropolitan Baptist Church on June 1st, 1950. A list of the graduating students is included. Hamilton High School, located at 1363 E. Person Avenue, began as a junior high school in 1941 and became a high school in 1943. It was named for prominent African American educator Green Polonius Hamilton (1867-1932), a former principal of Kortrecht High School.
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sc.0495.014_014.001
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1950
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Hamilton High School (Memphis, Tenn.)
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"Hamilton High School, Memphis, commencement announcement, 1950" (2021). Other documents. 23.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-verticalfiles7/23
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