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Northern High School (Detroit) 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.
7 de may. de 2023 · Today, the school is known as the Detroit International Academy for Young Women, the only public all-girls pre-K-12 school in the state. The school mascot is the Pink Panthers. It offers a college preparatory curriculum with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and math.
17 de jul. de 2017 · Detroit '67: 1966 student walkout at Northern a sign of things to come. More than 2,000 students walked out of Detroit's Northern High School in 1966 to protest racism. Allie Gross.
13 de may. de 2018 · The 1966 Northern walkout is an inspiration to Detroit's young activists. Youth activism is, too often, misunderstood. As a black youth organizer, I’ve heard it all: that I’m “rude and ...
Northern High School (now Detroit International Academy for Young Women), at 9026 Woodward Avenue, about 1 mile north of Grand Blvd. in Detroit, was designed by Wirt Rowland in 1914 while he was working for the firm of Malcomson & Higginbotham.
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.”.
Semester in Detroit students helped research the story using materials from the Walter Reuther Library, and high school students performed the play. Sources. Play reprises student protest at Northern High. Detroit News. 11 May 2011. Semester in Detroit students’ research supports historical play. The University Record Online. 6 June 2011.
