Prudence Crandall's Legacy: The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education

by Donald E. Williams and Donald E. Williams Jr.

Book Overview

Compelling account of the abolitionist's life, legal battles, and legacy

Prudence Crandall was a schoolteacher who fought to integrate her school in Canterbury, Connecticut, and educate black women in the early nineteenth century. When Crandall accepted a black woman as a student, she unleashed a storm of controversy that catapulted her to national notoriety, and drew the attention of the most significant pro- and anti-slavery activists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819574708
• ISBN13: 9780819574701
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"