Senior Qualifiers: National History Day Philadelphia 2021

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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

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