Wendell Phillips Academy High School

CTL-E-0158 · School · high-school · 1900s–contemporary

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Historic Bronzeville high school, Chicago's first predominantly Black high school

The record

• Also known as: Phillips Academy, Wendell Phillips High School

Relationships

• Bronzeville — located in
  Bronzeville high school
• Gwendolyn Brooks — has alumnus
  Brooks attended Hyde Park High School, then transferred to the all-Black Wendell Phillips High School before finishing at Englewood; Phillips' notable-alumni list records Gwendolyn Brooks as attended.
• Nat King Cole — has alumnus
  Newcity reports Nathaniel Adams Cole attended Wendell Phillips High School in 1934, dropping out at 15 to pursue music; he separately participated in Walter Dyett's music program at DuSable, so both school ties coexist.
• Sam Cooke — has alumnus
  Sam Cooke attended Wendell Phillips High School; the 2011 Sam Cooke Way street-naming account states he graduated from Phillips in 1948.
• Vivian G. Harsh — has alumnus
  Harsh's biography lists Wendell Phillips Academy High School in her education, and Phillips' alumni list records Vivian G. Harsh (1909). Both sources are Wikipedia articles; marked provisional pending an independent source.

Sources

• Chicago Public Schools — Wendell Phillips Academy history

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