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Trenton, NJ Office Address: West State Street - 2nd Floor. Trenton, NJ. Contact Information. Email: Feedback@www.doorway.ru DOS Home New Jersey State Archives Search the Collections Imaged Collections Bordentown Manual Training School Photographs, ca. ss. Record Group: Department of www.doorway.ruion #:  · In the boarding school relocated to the edge of Bordentown and expanded to include instruction to sixth- through twelth-grade boys and girls. For the next 59 years the school provided training based on the customary gender and racial occupations allowed for African Americans in the era of “Jim Crow” public education. It was called the “Tuskegee of the North,” although it was formally known as the New Jersey Industrial and Manual Training School for Colored Youth. Eventually, it was best known simply as the Bordentown School, a leader in black education from Reconstruction until the s. Founded in , Bordentown.

Bordentown Manual Training School (N.J.) (Bordentown, [N.J.]: State of New Jersey, Manual Training School for Colored Youth, ) Public hearing before the commission established under A.C.R. no. 22 to Study methods of providing an integrated vocational training program under state sponsorship and to investigate the circumstances surrounding the proposed closing of Bordentown Manual Training School. The New Jersey Industrial and Manual Training School for Colored Youth, which was known as The Bordentown School, is one of the most important secondary schools for African Americans in the northern United States. Bordentown (NJ) Manual Training School A fascinating documentary, A Place Out of Time, was shown May 24th on PBS. Bordentown was a co-educational public school operated by the State of New Jersey for seventy years.

Taped: 04/15/ This week on African American Legends, Dr. Brown is joined by director, Dave Davidson and Bordentown Graduate. Feb For 60 years, the Manual Training Industrial School for Colored Youth in Bordentown served as NJ's state-operated, co-ed vocational school. Progressive-Era schools – the Chicago Manual Training School, the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth in Bordentown, New Jersey.