Prudence Crandall
Deceased Person
1803 – 1890
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Who was Prudence Crandall?
Prudence Crandall, a schoolteacher raised as a Quaker, stirred controversy with her education of African-American girls in Canterbury, Connecticut. Her private school, opened in the fall of 1831, was boycotted when she admitted a 17-year-old African-American female student in the autumn of 1833; resulting in what is widely regarded as the first integrated classroom in the United States.
She is Connecticut's official State Heroine.
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- Born
- Sep 3, 1803
Hope Valley - Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Jan 28, 1890
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on July 23, 2013
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