The Promise Academy at Roberts Vaux High School is a historic American high school in the North Central neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Roberts Vaux High School, August 2010
Jacob C. White Jr.
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Jacob C. White Jr. was an American educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist. Born to a successful and influential businessman, White received the finest education afforded to African American
Roberts Vaux Junior High School
…work, and a two-story, stone, Tudor-arched entryway. It was named for American jurist, abolitionist, and philanthropist Roberts Vaux (1786-1836). Jacob C. White, Jr. served as principal from 1864 to 1896 and was the first black school principal in Philadelphia. During his tenure, White reformed the institute and…
White in 1902
Friend and fellow rights activist, Octavius Catto, co-founded the Philadelphia Pythians with White.