A History of School Segregation in Glassboro and Pitman, New Jersey. TW/CW. Much of Elsmere, a Black enclave in Glassboro, NJ, no longer exists. It once housed a school for Black students from not only Glassboro, but from neighboring towns. Prior to 1917 there is no evidence of students being deliberately segregated. But, following angry reactions to the film Birth of a Nation in 1915, segregating schools soon became a point of contention among white residents.

Official Press Release from Pride Alliance of Pitman

Official Press Release from Pitman Anti-Racist Collective

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

- George Santayana