The New Haven Museum and The Amistad Committee are sponsoring a book discussion by author Donald E. Williams, Jr. who will talk about his new book "Prudence Crandall's Legacy: The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v.Board of Education."
This will take place at the New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, on Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 6pm.
Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 – January 28, 1890),was a Quaker schoolteacher who stirred controversy with her education of African-American girls in Canterbury, Connecticut. Her private school, opened in the fall of 1831, was boycotted when she admitted a 17-year-old African-American female student in the autumn of 1833;
She is Connecticut's official State Heroine.
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