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Christopher made his first visit to the school in 2007, a time, he says, when much within the classrooms, hallways and auditorium were still surprisingly intact.
Photographer Matthew Christopher, of the website Abandoned America, calls Edison “easily the best of all the schools I have been to.” For his complete photo essay on the building, click HERE. A spokesman for Mosaic Partners could not confirm how much, if any, original stone from the school would be included in the monument. (The present Edison/Fareira has a memorial on its premises as well.) The design for Edison Square gestures towards the Gothic stone figure of the school, although much of it will be new stonework. Vietnam memorial, Edison Square | Image: Wulff ArchitectsĪ memorial to honor the Edison alumni will be erected at the entrance to the shopping center.
Fifty-four Edison alumni perished in Vietnam, the most of any high school in the country. Perhaps most significant in Edison’s narrative is its grim relationship to the war in Vietnam, a conflict which–much like those that have succeeded it–revealed how disproportionately America’s enlisted services drew from the ranks of the poor. The old school, which became Edison, was stripped of its connection to Northeast High.Įdison would also come to find its premises too outdated and relocate in 1988, to its current locale at Front and Luzerne Streets (now known formally as the Thomas A. Amid changing demographics and heightened racial tensions, the school moved to its present location at 1601 Cottman Avenue–an area now associated with the “true” geographic Northeast, then a fast-developing community where white families had been flocking following the Second World War.
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Northeast Manual was renamed Northeast High School in 1913. Northeast/Edison retained much of its vocational purpose throughout its history, even remaining an all-boys institution as late as 1979. Titus designed the school’s classrooms to be specialized learning spaces, a contrast with the multipurpose classrooms defined by divider walls that had been the previous standard in city schools.
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Yet the loftiness of the Gothic structure belied its original purpose: to provide free public education and vocational training to poor and working-class boys entering the industrial trades.
The most striking feature of Titus’ stone-and-wood building was its castle-like central tower, flanked by four turrets with gargoyles radiating from all sides. Opened in 1905 as the Northeast Manual Training School, the building was designed by Lloyd Titus, who worked on dozens of schools as an architect for the Philadelphia Board of Public Education. The three main characters are “ computers” who worked at the National Air and Space Administration ( NASA) during America’s race to space against the Soviet Union in the 1960’s.įor more about my interview with Margot Lee Shetterly check out my other articles: Words of Wisdom from Hidden Figures Author Margot Lee Shetterly and Hidden Figures: Turning Science Fiction into Science Fact.Northeast High School, 1912 | Photo: Philadelphia Department of Records Henson as Katherine Johnson, Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan, and Janelle Monae as Mary Jackson. Hidden Figures, adapted from the novel Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, stars Taraji P. Fittingly she played the soundtrack on repeat until the book was completed. In the last few months of writing her book, Shetterly – who’d read the book Hamilton before she began writing Hidden Figures – was inspired not just by the incredible “sweeping characters and long history” in the book but by the musical by Lin Manual-Miranda.
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In preparation for the 2017 release of 20th Century Fox’s new motion-length film Hidden Figures, here are five awesome facts I learned from my interview with the author of the best-selling novel, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, Margot Lee Shetterly.