If I Could Help Somebody
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Excerpt from an oral history with Mary Hughes, who worked as a 'cottage mother' at the NY Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY for over 25 years.
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"Please hurry with some word"
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The stories of some of the residents at the New York State Training School for Girls during the 1920s as told by the letters they wrote and received.
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Searching for Ella
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New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein talks about discovering Ella Fitzgerald's hidden past at the Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreA Real Family
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Excerpt from an oral history with Alice Green, Executive Director of the Center for Law & Justice and former employee at the Hudson Girls' Training School.
Read MoreBlack Child Savers Along the Hudson
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The story of how Jane Bolin and the NAACP fought in the 1940s to prohibit public funding of charitable institutions that practiced racial discrimination.
Read MoreWho is Training Whom?
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A note and poem from Frances Drabick, a writer whose mother worked at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY in the 1960s.
Read MoreWhere is Margo Bake?
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Margo Bake was five months pregnant when she arrived at the Hudson Girls' Training School. She ran away in 1949, and now her son is trying to find her.
Read MorePeople Get a Great Idea and It Doesn't Materialize
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Excerpt from an oral history with David Kinlock, a resident of Albany who was formerly incarcerated at the Hudson Correctional Facility in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreTraining School: Punishment or Protection?
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A parole agent's presentation at a New York conference in 1905 stirs a debate about the Hudson Training School for Girls: Punishment or Protection?
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