Prudence Crandall

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Prudence Crandall

Prudence Crandall (born September 3, 1803 in Hopkinton , Rhode Island , † January 28, 1890 in Elk Falls , Kansas ) was an American teacher and anti- racial activist in education. She founded the first school for African American students in New England .

Life

Prudence Crandall founded a private girls' school, the Canterbury Female Boarding School , in Canterbury, Connecticut , in 1831 . In 1832, when 20-year-old Sarah Harris became the first black woman to apply for membership, Crandall took her on as a student. Numerous parents then took their daughters from the school that had been successful and respected up until then. As a result, Prudence Crandall decided to found his own school for African American girls. The High School for Young Colored Ladies and Missesstarted operations in 1833. The state of Connecticut responded by enacting law that made the school incompatible. Crandall was arrested and faced three trials. Although the case was dropped in the summer of 1834, the school was subjected to so many violent attacks that it had to close in the fall of 1834.

In 1886 the state issued an official apology for the damage Crandall and her students had suffered.

Your school is now a museum.

Honors and reception

Prudence Crandall since October 1, 1995 officially heroine of the State of Connecticut ( "Connecticut's State Heroine").

In the television series Profiles in Courage , based on John F. Kennedy's book Civil Courage , Prudence Crandall was dedicated an episode in which Crandall is played by Janice Rule .

literature

  • Thomas E. Drake: Crandall, Prudence. In: Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James (Eds.): Notable American Women. A Biographical Dictionary. Radcliffe College 1971, ISBN 0-674-62734-2 , pp. 399-401.
  • Philip S. Foner, Josephine F. Pacheco: Three Who Dared. Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner: Champions of Antebellum Black Education. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut 1984, ISBN 0-313-23584-8 .
  • Suzanne Jurmain: The Forbidden Schoolhouse. The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 2005, ISBN 0-618-47302-5 .
  • Victor Grossman : Rebel Girls: Portraits of 34 American Women , Cologne: Papyrossa, 2012, pp. 80–82

Web links

Commons : Prudence Crandall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Connecticut's State website: The State Heroine ; accessed January 2, 2017.
  2. ^ Profiles in Courage. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Crandall, Prudence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American teacher and civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Hopkinton , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1890
Place of death Elk Falls , Kansas