Monday, May 24 at 10 p.m. – A Place Out of Time – The Bordentown
School (Rochester, NY) – For a 70-year period, from 1866-1955,
when America cared little about education for African Americans
and discrimination was both law and custom, the Bordentown
School in Bordentown, New Jersey, was an educational utopia. An
incubator for black pride and intellect, the school taught
values, discipline and life skills to generations of African-
American children. A Place Out of Time – The Bordentown School,
airing Monday, May 24 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV (DT 21.1/cable 1011
and 11), tells the story of this remarkable institution through
its alumni, scholars and historians, and a treasure trove of
archival footage and photographs. Actress Ruby Dee narrates. A
Place Out of Time chronicles the birth, growth and decline of
the last all-black, publicly funded co-educational boarding
school north of the Mason-Dixon line. The film is also a
chronicle of black education in America across three centuries,
a rarely seen inside portrait