A place out of time the Bordentown School

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Title:

A place out of time the Bordentown School

Author:

Davidson, Dave.

Publication Information:

[United States] : PBS Home Video, [2010]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

The little-known story of the last all-black, publicly funded, coeducational boarding school north of the Mason-Dixon Line. In a segregated society, the Bordentown School was an educational utopia and cultural oasis for black citizens in the northeast and beyond for more than 70 years. Founded in 1886, and forced to close in 1955 after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the story of Bordentown is also the story of black education in America across three centuries.

General Note:

Originally produced for television broadcast on PBS in 2009.

Language:

English

Reading Level:

Not rated.

Corporate Subject:

Manual Training and Industrial School for Youth (Bordentown, N.J.) -- History.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Education -- New Jersey -- Bordentown -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Vocational education -- New Jersey.

Segregation in education -- New Jersey -- Bordentown -- History -- 20th century.