Prudence Crandall

Prudence Crandall Fights for Equal Access to Education

September 9, 2021 • Expansion and Reform 1801-1861, Canterbury, Prudence Crandall, Education, Law, Women

A headmistress champions education for African American women and although forced to close her school in 1834, she helped win the battle for generations that followed.

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State Heroine Prudence Crandall

September 3, 2020 • Expansion and Reform 1801-1861, Hide Featured Image, Imagining Connecticut, Canterbury, Prudence Crandall, Education, Women

Prudence Crandall was born in 1803 in Hopkinton, Rhode Island,…

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An Orderly & Decent Government: Making Self-Government Work, 1819-1865

April 12, 2018 • An Orderly & Decent Government, Civil War and Reconstruction 1850-1877, Canterbury, Ithiel Town, Prudence Crandall, Hartford, New Haven, Norfolk, Social Movements

In the mid-19th century, Connecticut looked toward changing its electoral processes as well as its civil rights record.

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Prudence Crandall Museum

March 16, 2014 • Hide Featured Image, Canterbury, Prudence Crandall, Education, Law, Women

Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures is a series of 50 five-minute film vignettes that profiles a variety of the state’s most notable cultural resources.

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