Manassas High School

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. The high school produced several prominent jazz musicians. In the 1920s, it was one of two high schools in Memphis for African Americans.

It received Rosenwald School funding. Cora Taylor was its principal. In 1940 it was listed as a "Negro" school that taught Service Occupations. In 1954 it was listed as instructing auto mechanics. In 1946 the Tennessee Negro Athletic Association met in Nashville with the school's J. A. Hayes leading it. Boxer Joe Louis attended the school's 1948 football game against Booker T. Washington High School.

In 1952 a study of the intelligence of the school's students was published. In 1953, a report on the reasons for drop-outs given by students, teachers and parents from the school was published. In 1971 a study of female students attitude towards physical education at the school was published. Louis B. Hobson was principal in 1972 when plans to make it a middle school in the wake of desegregation were proposed.

Robert Samuel White Sr. wes the school's principal for 14 years during the 1980s and 1990s.

The 2011 documentary film Undefeated is about the school's football team and its former coach, Bill Courtney. Its football team has made 12 championship appearances and won twice.

Alumni

 * Elma Stuckey, politician
 * Barbara Cooper, politician
 * Hank Crawford, musician
 * Earl Wright, signer and songwriter
 * Clara Brawner, doctor
 * Will Redmond, football player
 * George Clarke (jazz musician), saxophonist
 * Dee Dee Bridgewater, musician
 * Burl Toler, football player
 * Jimmie Lunceford, musician
 * Booker Little, musician
 * Harold Mabern, musician
 * Ernest Withers, photojournalist
 * Isaac Hayes, did not graduate
 * Christopher E. Beavers, chef
 * Phineas Newborn Jr., jazz pianist
 * George Porter
 * Charles Lloyd, jazz multi-instrumentalist
 * Frank Strozier, jazz saxophonist
 * Fred L. Davis
 * Houston Antwine, football player