Bordentown manual training school

 · Originally established as a private institution by Rev. Walter A. Rice, a college-educated former slave and minister with the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, it was taken over by the state of New Jersey in and renamed the “Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth.”.  · Originally opened in under the name of the Bordentown School, The New Jersey Manual Training School for Boys moved to the outskirts of Bordentown in The majority of the schools’ thirty-plus buildings were built on its more than four hundred acres between and the s. 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 was a boarding school for boys and girls in grades 6 through With its acre Georgian style.

Originally established in as the Ironsides Normal School in Bordentown the school was absorbed by the state in and came under the State Board of Education in It was at various times called the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, Bordentown Manual Training School, State of New Jersey Manual Training School. The New Jersey Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth in Bordentown originally established in by Rev. Rice, a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, as a private. The Bordentown School (officially titled the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, the State of New Jersey Manual Training School and Manual Training and Industrial School for Youth, though other names were used over the years), was a residential high school for African-American students, located in Bordentown in Burlington County, New Jersey.

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 Manual Training and Industrial School in Bordentown was an important institution for the education of young African American women. It was founded in by an African Methodist Episcopal Minister, the Reverend W. A. Rice, in an effort to introduced the vocational education concepts of Booker T. Washington. The Manual Training and Industrial School in Bordentown was an important institution for the education of young African American men women. It was founded in by an African Methodist Episcopal Minister, the Reverend W. A. Rice, in an effort to introduced the vocational education concepts of Booker T. Washington.