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Brooklyn, NY: On Monday, March 28, 2022, Council Member Crystal Hudson (District 35) will join Principal Fatimah Ali as well as the parents, students, and faculty of PS 9 to unveil the new sign honoring the school’s name change to The Sarah Smith Garnet School.
The Sarah Smith Garnet School, (PS 9) is located at 80 Underhill Avenue, Brooklyn. The event will start at 2 pm EDT.
A native Brooklynite, Sarah Smith Garnet was a suffragette and educator who became the first Black female school principal in New York City.
Mrs. Garnet was also the founder of the Brooklyn-based Equal Suffrage League and the superintendent for the National Association of Colored Women.
In 2019, PS 9, whose student population is 40 percent Black, voted to rename itself the Sarah Smith Garnet School as of the 2019-2020 school year.
