Forbidden Schoolhouse The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students

Name: Forbidden Schoolhouse The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students
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ISBN: 9780618473021

ISBN-10: 0618473025

ISBN-13: 9780618473021

Edition: 2005

Authors: Suzanne Jurmain

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They threw rocks and rotten eggs at the school windows. Villagers refused to sell Miss Crandall groceries or let her students attend the town church. Mysteriously, her schoolhouse was set on fire--by whom and how remains a mystery. The town authorities dragged her to jail and put her on trial for breaking the law. Her crime? Trying to teach African American girls geography, history, reading, philosophy, and chemistry. Trying to open and maintain one of the first African American schools in America. Exciting and eye-opening, this account of the heroine of Canterbury, Connecticut, and her elegant white schoolhouse at the center of town will give readers a glimpse of what it is like to try…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/24/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

To research this book, Suzanne Jurmain used primary sources of memoirs, medical log books and documents from the doctors who were actually involved in the conquest of yellow fever. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles and has two adult children - and one large golden retriever.