Ms. Crandall was a Quaker who opened a school for girls in Canterbury, Connecticut in 1831. Two years later she admitted a Black girl, which so outraged the town and state that she had to close it for fear of her students' safety. Sixty years later, after the U.S. Civil War, the state apologized, called her a Heroine and gave her a pension. (Prudence Crandall Museum)
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