Prudence Crandall
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Prudence Crandall was an American schoolteacher and activist. She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut, which became the first known school for African American girls i
Crandall, 1834 portrait by Francis Alexander
Prudence Crandall Went to Jail for Teaching Colored Students.
Samuel J. May's pamphlet protesting Andrew T. Judson's and others unjust treatment of Crandall and her school for "Colored" females
Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William
Prudence Crandall
…unable to keep the school open safely. She left Connecticut and never lived there again. Much later, the Connecticut legislature, with lobbying from Mark Twain, a resident of Hartford, passed a resolution honoring Crandall and providing her with a pension. She died a few years later, in 1890. She was named the…
Twain in 1907
Samuel Clemens, age 15 holding metal type in a composing stick that spells out his first name. As a daguerreotype, whose creation involved no intermediate negative, the image is laterally reversed. Hence the type, which, in actuality, was backward, is readable, though Twain himself is flipped.
Twain, age 31
(From l. to r.) American Civil War correspondent and author George Alfred Townsend, Mark Twain and David Gray, editor of the rival Buffalo Courier