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- ↑ "NEW JERSEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FACT SHEET". State of New Jersey DOE. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- ↑ Keyes, Allison. "Documentary Focuses On 'Tuskegee Of The North'", National Public Radio , May 24, 2010. Accessed December 10, 2017. "In its prime, Bordentown was referred to as the Tuskegee of the North. Only Bordentown, unlike Booker T. Washington's Alabama institute wasn't private, it was a coed African-American school publicly financed by the state of New Jersey. It was only after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision that the state of New Jersey moved to shut down the school, citing its inability to attract white students. It closed in June of 1955."
- ↑ Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth at Bordentown, NJ: Institutional History, New Jersey Department of State. Accessed December 10, 2017.
- ↑ DeMasters, Karen. "On The Map; Remembering a Boarding School for Black Students", The New York Times , October 1, 2000. Accessed December 10, 2017. "The former campus of the Bordentown Manual and Training School, a residential school for black high school students in Burlington County, is now owned by the state. Some of the buildings, dating to 1886 when the school was founded, are used by the Department of Corrections to house juvenile offenders, but most are vacant and sinking into disrepair.... The school flourished until the 1950s, when the Brown vs. the Board of Education decision ended segregation. The school closed in 1955."
- 1 2 Pattani, Aneri (November 16, 2017). "New Jersey Schools Becoming More Segregated, New Report Finds". WNYC. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- ↑ Flaxman, Greg (October 2013). "A Status Quo of Segregation: Racial and Economic Imbalance in New Jersey Schools, 1989-2010" (PDF). Civil Rights Project. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- 1 2 Orfield, Gary (November 2017). "New Jersey's Segregated Schools Trends and Paths Forward" (PDF). Civil Rights Project. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- ↑ Abbott Districts Archived 2017-12-10 at the Wayback Machine , Education Law Center. Accessed December 10, 2017.
- ↑ The History of Abbott v. Burke Archived 2017-12-11 at the Wayback Machine , Education Law Center. Accessed December 10, 2017.