The New Jersey Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth.
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Most people don’t realize it was ever there, but graduates including Arthur Symes will never forget the residential school in Bordentown City that helped shape their lives — and black history in America.
“They nurtured us, they cuddled us, and they kicked us in the butt, when it was necessary,” recalls Symes, who graduated in 1953, shortly before the New Jersey Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth was closed.
In a documentary that will air on PBS stations tomorrow, Symes and other graduates discuss their experiences at what may simply be called the Bordentown School — the last state-supported, elite, co-ed, all-black high school north of the Mason-Dixon line.
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