School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color
Type
Boarding
Established
October 1831
Founder
Prudence Crandall
Closed
September 10, 1834. Closed briefly in March 1833 as it converted into a school for African-American "young ladies and little misses of color", which reopened April 1833.
Principal
Prudence Crandall
Staff
Mariah Davis
Faculty
Prudence Crandall, her sister Almira Crandall, Samuel May, William Burleigh[1]: 660 [2]: 62–66
Gender
Female
Enrollment
24
Campus type
Large house on Canterbury town square
Supporters
William Lloyd Garrison, Rev. Simeon Jocelyn, Rev. Samuel J. May, Arthur Tappan
Enemies
Andrew T. Judson
Relevant legislation
Connecticut Black Law, passed May 24, 1833, repealed 1838, prohibiting educating African Americans not from Connecticut, who were not citizens and did not have rights.
Legal issue
Whether African Americans were citizens
Supreme Court references
Dred Scott v. Sandford, Brown v. Board of Education
Website
Prudence Crandall Museum, state of Connecticut
The Canterbury Female Boarding School, in Canterbury, Connecticut, was operated by its founder, Prudence Crandall, from 1831 to 1834. When townspeople would not allow African-American girls to enroll, Crandall decided to turn it into a school for African-American girls only, the first such in the United States. The Connecticut legislature passed a law against it, and Crandall was arrested and spent a night in jail, bringing national publicity. Community violence forced Crandall to close the school.
The episode is a major incident in the history of school desegregation in the United States. The case Crandall v. State was "the first full-throated civil rights case in U.S. history.... The Crandall case [in which a key issue was whether blacks were citizens[3]: 144 ] helped influence the outcome of two of the most fateful Supreme Court decisions, Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857[[4]] and...Brown v. Board of Education in 1954."[3]: xi
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^ abWilliams, Jr., Donald E (2014). Prudence Crandall's legacy : the fight for equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education". Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 9780819574701. Archived from the original on 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2019-10-28 – via Project MUSE.
^The Dred Scott decision. Opinion of Chief Justice Taney, with an introduction by Dr. J.H. Van Evrie. Also, an appendix, containing an essay on the natural history of the prognathous race of mankind, originally written for the New York Day-book, by Dr. S. A. Cartwright, of New Orleans. New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co. 1863. p. 23.
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