Community, Race, and Curriculum in Detroit

The Northern High School Walkout

Bibliographic Data

ID23203449
AuthorsBarry M Franklin (corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages57-79
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueCurriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230105744_3
OpenAlexW2028160964
ISBN9780230105744
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited20

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 group of parents who had congregated on the street in front of the school. For the next two hours, the students and parents marched around the school carrying picket signs that decried the education offered at Northern and shouted for the removal of the principal, Arthur Carty. The marchers then made their way to nearby St. Joseph's Episcopal Church where about a thousand of them attended a rally in which they listened to a recent Northern graduate tell how his high school education did not prepare him for the academic rigors of the University of Michigan and heard Superintendent Brownell's assurances that the problems at Northern would be addressed.1 What followed was a three-week boycott during which time the student leaders of the walkout would press their demands for a host of changes at the school, including the removal of the principal.KeywordsBlack CommunityBlack StudentUrban SchoolAfrican American ChildBlack ChildThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Boycott · Curriculum · Picketing · Political science · Politics · Principal (computer security) · Race (biology) · Sociology · Theology · Thursday · Critical Race Theory in Education · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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