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Prudence Crandall's Legacy: The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education
Donald E. Williams
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Description for Prudence Crandall's Legacy: The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education
paperback. Compelling account of the abolitionist's life, legal battles, and legacy Num Pages: 476 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; JFSL1; JNB; LNDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 680.
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 antislavery activists of the day. The Connecticut state legislature passed its infamous Black Law in an attempt to close down her school. Arrested and jailed, Crandall’s legal legacy had a lasting impact—Crandall v. State was the first civil rights case in U.S. history. The arguments by attorneys in ... Read more
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 antislavery activists of the day. The Connecticut state legislature passed its infamous Black Law in an attempt to close down her school. Arrested and jailed, Crandall’s legal legacy had a lasting impact—Crandall v. State was the first civil rights case in U.S. history. The arguments by attorneys in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
476
Condition
New
Number of Pages
476
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819576460
SKU
V9780819576460
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