George Washington High School Archives

Harlem’s Ruth Clark, A Legendary Civic Leader And Philanthropist 1941 – 2018

Ruth Clark, a civic leader, and philanthropist who founded a personnel agency both to meet the demand for data processors in the 1970s and to relieve high unemployment in Harlem and other minority neighborhoods in New York. Continue reading

Pilot Lands On St. Nicholas Avenue, 1956

Surprise airplane landings always make headlines. Who will forget Capt. Chesley Sullenberger steering a US Airways jetliner onto the Hudson River in 2009? Continue reading

NYC Emergency Management Hosts Disaster Simulation Exercise For CERT Team Uptown

The New York City Emergency Management Department hosted a disaster simulation exercise for Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) trainees at George Washington High School in Inwood on Wednesday, November 20, 2019. Continue reading

Harlem’s Kenneth B. & Mamie Phipps Clark, 1914 – 2005

Kenneth Bancroft Clark, July 14, 1914 – May 1, 2005, and Mamie Phipps Clark (April 18, 1917 – August 11, 1983) were African-American psychologists who as a married team conducted important research among children and were active in the Civil Rights Movement. Continue reading

Harlem Clarence H. Beavers, Last Of WWII Paratrooper Pioneers Dies

Clarence Beavers stated he was born on June 12, 1921 at West 134 Street, Harlem, New York. Continue reading