We Didn't Come Here to Fight: The Struggle for a Safe Education

This video offers a complex and balanced account of the recent violence against Asian immigrant students at South Philadelphia High School and the ensuing civil rights case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against the School District. It explores the failures of the school's authorities in dealing with the diverse student body, the support the immigrant students received from some of their black classmates, the background social and economic circumstances that generated the conflict, and the efforts that have been made to improve the climate at Southern, particularly by the new principal Otis Hackney.

A production of the Penn Program on Documentaries & the Law: http://www.law.upenn.edu/academics/institutes/documentaries/

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Education

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• south philadelphia high school
• asian immigrant students
• philadelphia public schools
• intergroup conflict
• interracial cooperation
• student activism
• philadelphia
• race
• high school