School Desegregation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (U.S.)

How did the School District of Philadelphia 
try to desegregate schools? 
How did Philadelphia, and Northeast High School (NEHS)  in particular, respond to desegregation?

Room 141  7th Period U.S. History 
Northeast High School    Philadlephia, PA 19111 



 
Demographic Data (Philadephia and Northeast High School)
Articles from NEHS Megaphone 1976-1984
Interviews with 5 teachers from NEHS
Results of Survey of NEHS students (2003)
Links on school segregation/ desegregation

 If  you want to contact us:

We would like to hear from Philadelphians who have memories about school desegregation efforts and life at Northeast High School from 1977 - 1985.

Students who worked on the historical inquiry project:

Saleem Anderson, Abdeel Bhatti, Malik Bostic-Smith, Wen Chen, Victoria Collins, Jose Colon, Kevin DeJoie, Sean Dinkelacker, Heather Florian, Narissa Knorr, Tanesha Lewis, Kareem McCafferty, Sean McGregor, Lauren McQuaid, Rafael Nako, Nicole Rubinson, Nellie Sanchez, Alexander Stokes, Erica Vanhinkle, Heather Volent, Jerrell Walden
Teacher:  Donna Sharer
 Class Page


Northeast High School  (early 1960s)


 

 
 
 

Many people made this project possible!  

Special thanks to:

Guest speakers Dr. Anne Philipps and Mr. Michael Hardiman

Teachers who agreed to be interviewed:
Mrs. Wendy Davis,  Mrs. Harrell,  Mr. Hecht Ms. Pavalko,  and  Mr. Swaby

Teachers who administered the surveys in their U.S. History class:  Ms. LeBrum, Mr. Lynch,  Ms. Cohen,  Ms. 

U.S. History class students who took the surveys

Photocopying help for the surveys from Ms. Bower

Time in the Northeast High School library to use old Megaphones and yearbooks from Mr. Bell (and for the photo of Northeast High School from the library web page)

Copies of old Megaphones from Mr. Weismann

Ms.  Temple University Urban Archives and Ms. Margaret Jerrido  for inviting us to use the archive, for "pulling" files, and photocopying articles  






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