I Decided To Be A Teacher...
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On May 16th, 2015, Brian Buckley interviewed Mabel Blanks in Hudson, NY. Mabel worked as a teacher at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson.
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We've Come Tonight To Reunite...
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The story of a reunion for former employees of the NYS Training School for Girls held in 1981 at a locally owned restaurant in Columbia County, NY and sponsored by the local branch of the NAACP.
Read MoreSearching 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 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 MoreWhy Is It Important To "Remember"?
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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.
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