Historic photographs from the NJ school for Young African Americans modeled after Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes.

At AAHMSNJ | Atlantic City Location

Noyes Arts Garage | 2200 Fairmount Avenue, Atlantic City

Requested Donations: Adults $3 | Students $2 | Wednesdays FREE | Military FREE

From 1886-1955, The Manual Training and Industrial School prepared its black students for life after graduation. The school closed following the 1954 Supreme Court's Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.  This segregated school was founded by Rev. Walter Allen Simpson Rice, an African Methodist Episcopal minister.  Rice sought advice from Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington on the curriculum, seeking to provide a Northern version of Tuskegee and Hampton Institute for African Americans from New Jersey & Pennsylvania.

Dozens of photographs of students and faculty from the school are on display October 9, 2015 to January 14, 2016 at the African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey's Atlantic City location.