Documentary Spotlights The Bordentown School

“A Place Out of Time,” an hour-long film that chronicles the 89-year history of The Bordentown School, will air on the Public Broadcasting System on May 24.

The school was the last all-Black publicly funded, co-educational boarding school north of the Mason-Dixon line, and was known as “the Tuskegee of the North,” after Booker T. Washington’s famous Alabama educational institution.

The school was operated by the state of New Jersey, which closed it in 1955 after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision made segregated education illegal.

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