The Evening Bulletin Newspaper Articles on the Black Bottom and UCHS, 1964-1974
The below articles can be found in Temple Urban Archives. They have been digitized here by Andrew Schiera. They are reproduced for educational purposes only.
| 7/19/1964 "University City: Brainsville on the March" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 8/15/1965 "University City: They Said It Couldn't Be Done" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 8/24/1966 "Science Center Seen Creating 60,000 Jobs" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 9/23/1966 "Group Renews School Protest in West Phila." (Evening Bulletin) |
| 10/4/1966 "Board Urged to Press Plans for University City School" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 10/12/1966 "CORE Warns It Will Fight Plans for University City Science School" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 10/12/1966 "West Philadelphia Compromise" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 10/16/1966 "3 Groups Fight for Space for W. Phila. Families" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 10/16/1966 "3 Rights Groups Back Citizens' Struggle to Retain Housing Site" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 10/19/1966 "Board Agrees to Reduce the Size of West Phila. Science School Site" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 11/2/1966 "New Plan Set to Relocate University City Residents" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 11/3/1966 "Demolition of Homes to Begin in Six Months in University City" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 11/4/1966 "Residents Rap University City Renewal Plan" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 12/13/1966 "U S Allocates $12 Million to Buy Science Center Land" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 12/20/1966 "Sayre Junior High to Get First School Pool in City" (Evening Bulletin) |
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| 7/21/1967 "Drexel's Plan" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 9/18/1967 "City Gets $60,000 to Aid Ill Among Relocated Poor" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 9/23/1967 "Powelton Owners Ask U S to Halt University City Aid" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 10/24/1967 "Science High School Set for 36th and Filbert Sts." (Evening Bulletin) |
| 10/29/1967 "46 Remain in 16-Acre Ghost Town Where City Will Build High School" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 11/23/1967 "New School Shy on Plans for Science, C of C Charges" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 11/29/1967 "Suit Opposes Drexel Plan in University City" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 12/19/1967 "Science Building Proposed on School's Parking Lot" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 9/22/1968 "Science School in University City Wins Backing at Board Hearing" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 10/1/1968 "New High School Started in University City Area" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 1/5/1969 "School Will Replace 3 R's with Organic Curriculum" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 1/28/1969 "University City High School to Offer Nongraded Course" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 2/25/1969 "Art Jury Holds Up Approval of 2 Schools Like Prisons" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 2/26/1969 "Urban Renewal Snarls Slow Science Center" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 3/14/1969 "Battleground in University City" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 5/11/1969 "Students to Have Cubicles at University City High" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 6/28/1969 "Authority OKs School by Penn" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 10/11/1969 "Mantua Group Wants to Help Pick Principal" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 10/28/1969 "Penn Group Asks More Low-Cost Housing" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 12/1/1971 "University City High to Open with 900 Pupils" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 12/6/1971 "University City High School Begins Classes" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 2/2/1972 "Untrained Pupil Influx Brings Old Rules Back to Unstructured School" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 2/9/1972 "Violence Plagues New High School" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 11/22/1972 "Gangs Disrupt University City High" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 11/23/1972 "Salvaging a Dream" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 12/3/1972 "Costanzo Increases Security at University City High" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 12/10/1972 "One Big Party Is Over for Pupils at University City" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 10/7/1973 "Youth Service Helps Reach, Teach Pupils" (Evening Bulletin) |
| 1/8/1974 "Girl Wins Right to Swim in Varsity Events" (Evening Bulletin) |