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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: September 25, 2012
Caption: Prudence Crandall Plaque inside Capitol Building near Statues.
Additional Description: Prudence Crandall 1803-1890 Connecticut State Heroine Prudence Crandall was educated at a society of friends school in Plainfield, Connecticut, after which she established her own private academy for girls at Canterbury. The school was a great success until she admitted an African-American girl which made local people furious. A committed Quaker, Prudence refused to change her policy of educating black and white students together and parents began taking their children away from the school. As a result, on April 1, 1933 with the support of William Lloyd Garrison and the Anti-slavery society, she founded a school for "Young" Ladies and Misses of Color". The school was forced to close after being harassed and attacked by a mob.
Submitted: October 4, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p221921
File Size: 1.468 Megabytes

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