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
Trial of Reuben Crandall
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Reuben Crandall, younger brother of educator Prudence Crandall, was a physician who was arrested in Washington, D.C., on August 10, 1835, on charges of "seditious libel and inciting slaves and free bl
Prudence Crandall
…girls ("young Ladies and little Misses of color") in the United States led by a white woman. She was the sister of Reuben Crandall, the defendant in the Trial of Reuben Crandall. In 1832, when Crandall admitted Sarah Harris, a 20-year-old African American woman, to her school, she created what can be considered the first known…
Beverly Snow's Epicurean Eating House, about 1835. The sign reads "Refectory Snow and Walkers".
Francis Scott Key
Title page of The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D