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.
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A 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 MoreThe "Ungovernable" Ella Fitzgerald
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On April 10, 1933, a fifteen-year-old “colored” girl named Ella Fitzgerald was sentenced to the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreNo Place To Go But Up...
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Excerpt from our oral history with Thomas Tunney, Superintendent of the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY from 1964 to 1972.
Read More"They Are All Ellas..."
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Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald kept secret the cruelest chapter of her own history: her confinement for over a year in a reformatory as an orphaned teenager.
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Excerpt from our oral history with Mary Allen, who remembers teaching at the Girls' Training School in Hudson, NY and the Brookwood Annex in Claverack, NY.
Read MoreNew York State Training School for Girls
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In 1904, the Women's House of Refuge was replaced by the New York State Training School for Girls, a juvenile reform institution in Hudson, NY.
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