Prudence Crandall
By Julianne Sulski
History
- She was born on September 3, 1803 and she died on January 28, 1890
- She was a schoolteacher and raised as a Quaker
- Controversy stirred with her education of African-American girls in Connecticut
- Her private school opened in the fall of 1831, and then was boycotted when she admitted a 17 year old African-American female student in 1833
- After all that it resulted in what is widely regarded as the first integrated classroom in the United States