A Place Out of Time The Bordentown School (2009)

For a seventyyear period when America cared little about the education of AfricanAmericans and discrimination was law and custom The Bordentown School was an educational utopia An incubator for black pride and intellect it taught values discipline and life skills to generations of black children This is the story of that remarkable school as told by Bordentown alumni historians and remarkable archival footage It is also the story of black education in America across three centuries presenting a nuanced rarely seen portrait of a separate black space and a muchneeded preface to the growing national discussion about historically black institutions and their role in nurturing identity and accomplishment What was lost and what was gained in the march toward equality