Newton School on 36th Street, Philadelphia (Pa.)

Newton School on 36th Street, Philadelphia (Pa.)

Newton School, Isadore Martin Sr., I Maximilian Martin Jr., Walnut Street, Chestnut Street, 36th Street, Philadelphia School Board, O.V. Catto School

The Newton School was located on 36th Street between Walnut Street and Chestnut Street. The school was an integrated elementary school. I. Maximilian Martin Jr. attended the school, but not until after his father Isadore Martin Sr. threatened administrators with action from the Philadelphia School Board. Martin Sr. was told his son would have more success at the O.V. Catto School, which was an all Black school; Martin Sr. refused to allow his children to attend a school strictly for African Americans; he felt as though the opportunity for success was less at the Catto School.

Franklin Davenport Edmunds

Philadelphia Free Library

WCU, HIS 601/HON 452 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Fall 2014

March 17, 1914

John Hashagen, Kelsee Noden

Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia

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