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Northern Senior High School was a public four-year high school located on the north end of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The school was a part of the Detroit Public Schools district. By the latter part of the 2000s, Northern Senior High School was cited for closure as well as several other local high schools in the Detroit School ...
7. Mai 2023 · Northern High School, as its name would suggest, served the students of northern Detroit, specifically the New Center area. In April 1966, more than 2,000 students at Detroit's Northern High School, 98% of them African American, staged a walkout to protest the quality of the education they were getting. Their efforts led to the ...
17. Juli 2017 · More than 2,000 students walked out of Detroit's Northern High School in 1966 to protest racism
13. Mai 2018 · Their walkout and freedom school embody the action I wish to see in Detroit’s youth -- a sustainable campaign that forces adults to do something about the challenges black and brown children...
Background. In 1966, Black juniors at Detroit’s Northern HIgh School were “advised” by counselors that they would not be able to enroll into college-prep classes because, “We aren’t sending Northern students to college.”.
"When 2300 students walked out of Northern High School in Detroit on April 7, 1966 they were protesting two injustices: first, grossly inferior educational opportunities for Negroes in all our inner-city schools, and second, 3 partidulary repressive high school administration at Northern."
On the morning of Thursday, April 7, 1966, some 2,300 students at Detroit’s all Black Northern High School responded to Superintendent Samuel Brownell’s decision to close the school in anticipation of a student protest by walking out in mass and joining a...
