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Coordinates: 42°22′58″N 83°04′50″W. Northern Senior High School, 2007. 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.
May 7, 2023 · Learn about the history and legacy of Northern High School, a former African American school in Detroit that closed in 2007. Find out how it became the Detroit International Academy for Young Women, the only public all-girls school in Michigan.
Jun 3, 2023 · Page · High School. 9026 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI, United States, Michigan. (313) 873-1250. Rating · 5.0 (9 Reviews)
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Jul 17, 2017 · Learn how black students at Northern High School protested against racism and discrimination in 1966, a year before the 1967 riot. Read their stories, demands and the response from school officials and the community.
Publish with us. Policies and ethics. 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...
- Barry M. Franklin
- 2004
"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." These were the intolerable
Gorgeous facade facing Woodward Avenue. Photo by Helmut Ziewers (www.ziewersphotography.com) of HistoricDetroit.org.
