The history behind Jack Yates High School
It’s fitting for a school to carry his name because Yates not only learned to read, write, and do arithmetic at a time when it was illegal for black people to do so, he also taught other black people.
It’s fitting for a school to carry his name because Yates not only learned to read, write, and do arithmetic at a time when it was illegal for black people to do so, he also taught other black people.