For a 70-year period, when America cared little about the education of African Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, the Bordentown School was an educational utopia. An incubator for black pride and intellect, the school taught values, discipline and life skills to generations of black children.
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This is Bordentown’s story, as told by alumni and historians, with 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 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? Ruby Dee narrates.
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