Join us for a screening of "A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School" Dr. Leslie Wilson, Professor of History at Montclair State University, and filmmaker Dave Davidson will introduce the film and lead a discussion following the screening.
This film, narrated by Ruby Dee, tells the story of this school in Bordentown, New Jersey, which was an educational utopia and cultural oasis for African-Americans for more than 70 years. Founded in 1886, and forced to close in 1955 after the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The demise of the Bordentown School was an unexpected casualty of the fight for social and educational justice in the Civil Rights Movement. The film features remarkable archival footage and interviews with historians and Bordentown School alumni.
"A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown Schoo"l will be featured on the award-winning PBS documentary series P.O.V. and has been screened at numerous New Jersey film festivals, including the Newark Black Film Festival.
This program is being offered through the New Jersey Council for the Humanities' "Justice: A Dialogue Through Film." It is free and open to the public.
For more information on this marvelous program, as well as this compelling documentary, go to http://www.njch.org.
