Prudence Crandall's Legacy : The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education /
"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 d...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Middletown, Conn. :
Wesleyan University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fire in the night sky
- Liberators
- Education for all
- A mountain of prejudice
- The black law
- Sanctuary denied
- On trial
- Judge Daggett's decision
- Romantic revolutionaries
- Race riots
- Appeal for equality
- The end of the beginning
- Family trials and tragedies
- Dred Scott and the winds of change
- The Civil War
- Reunions and farewells
- Pursuit of justice
- Prudence Crandall in the twentieth century.