This Year's Theme

Senior Qualifiers: National History Day Philadelphia 2021

Senior Papers:

  • 1st Place: “ ‘I, Too, Am America ’: The Black Literary Revolution of the Harlem Renaissance” (by Maia Saks)
  • 2nd Place: “ ‘The World Was Thinking Wrong About Race’: W.E.B. Du Bois' The Philadelphia Negro” (by Alice Padula)
  • 3rd Place: “Jackie Robinson: Communicating Equality on and off the Field” (by Kethan Shirodkar)

Senior Individual Websites:

  • 1st Place: “ ‘We Shall Do to all Men as We Will Be Done Ourselves’ : The 1688 Germantown Petition Against Slavery” (by Grace Padula)
  • 2nd Place: “ ‘Black is Beautiful’ : The Rise of Appreciation for Black Beauty” (by Ariela Loshi)
  • 3rd Place: “An Urgent Appeal: Communication in W.E.B Du Bois' Work as Crisis Editor” (by Sophie Gala)

Senior Group Websites:

  • 1st Place: “James McCune Smith: Healer of Maladies, Communicator of Abolition” (by Nawshin Ahana and Luiza Sulea)
  • **Honorable Mention: “ ‘We Would Have to Fight the World’: The Combahee River Collective and Its Lasting Impression on Intersectional Feminism” (by Naima Clark, Hala Alhuraibi, and Jackie Gonzales)

Senior Group Documentaries:

  • 1st Place: Freedom Rides: The Protests that Paved the Road to Integration
    (by Maya Lindsey, Maizy Knoblock, and Angelina Li)
  • 2nd Place: Face the Music: The Golden Age of Jazz in Philadelphia (by Madison Kajuffa, Claudia Roth Hesson, and Calder Burke)
  • 3rd Place: Plessy v. Ferguson: The Case That Altered American Society at the Expense of Black Liberation (by Lucianna Ngo and Naomi Kassahun)
  • **Honorable Mention: War At 33 1/3: How the Lumpen Used Music to Energize a Movement (by Carter Blake, Andoni Christou, Rafael Quinodoz, Jordan Sztejman, and Joseph Adams

Senior Individual Exhibits

  • 1st Place: “The Albany Movement: A Stalemate in Civil Rights History” (by Jesse James)
  • 2nd Place: “Pens Against Discrimination: The Bloodless Revolution of the Harlem Renaissance” (by Tina Jiang)
  • **Honorable Mention:“Central Park Five: Innocent or Guilty” (by Sincire Moragne)
  • **Honorable Mention: “The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: A Message of Oppression” (by Fatima Morales)

Senior Group Exhibits:

  • 1st Place: “The Bracero Program: Misleading Migrant Labor Contracts” (by Angel Tillman-Myers and Alexander Niento-Perez)

Senior Individual Performance

  • 1st Place: “Mother Bethel and the African Methodist Episcopal Church: A Powerful Denomination's Rise Through Communication” (by Maya Salzman)

Senior Individual Documentaries:

  • 1st Place: “Bring A Folding Chair : Shirley Chisholm's Groundbreaking Presidential Campaign” (by Noah Eggerts)
  • 2nd Place: “Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: How Fannie Lou Hamer's 1964 Testimony Changed Black Voting Rights” (by Jianwei Li)
  • **Honorable Mention: “I'm Not Condoning what You're Doing: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and the Message in the Music of the Philadelphia International Label” (by Henry Margasak

NHD Philly would like to recognize all the schools and teachers whose students participated in the competition:

  • General Louis Wagner Middle School - teacher, Hayden O'Rourke
  • Constitution High School - teacher, Jennifer Luneau
  • Penn Treaty School - teacher, Salvatore Garcia
  • Philadelphia Military Academy - teacher, Rose Bruce
  • Masterman School - teacher, Elizabeth Taylor
  • Springside/Chestnut Hill Academy - teacher, Jamie Panone
  • St. Joseph's Preparatory School - teacher, Leo Vaccaro
  • St. Peter's School - teacher, Marian Cronin-Connolly