crandall, prudence

From Connecticut schoolrooms to the Supreme Court, Donald Williams offers a compelling look at the struggle for Black equality in America. Williams reminds readers that abolitionism was the first Civil Rights Movement and that race reformers like Prudence Crandall struggled to overcome prejudice in the North as well as the South.

A new edition of the historical novel of the Quaker teacher who in 1833 opened a school for African-American women and girls.

Chronicles the life and struggles of Prudence Crandall who, in the 1830s closed her all-white boarding school for girls in Canterbury, Connecticut, and began admitting African-American students; and describes the intense opposition from the townspeople.

Poems tell the story of nineteenth-century teacher Prudence Crandall and the students she taught at her Canterbury, Connecticut, school for African-American girls before persecution forced its closing.

Provides a brief biography of Prudence Crandall, discussing how she opened one of the first schools for African-American girls.