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The Driftless Connecticut Series is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Williams, Donald E.

Prudence Crandall’s legacy: the fight for equality in the 1930s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education / Donald E. Williams Jr.

pages cm—(A Driftless Connecticut series book)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8195-7470-1 (cloth: alk. paper)—

ISBN 978-0-8195-7471-8 (ebook)

1. Crandall, Prudence, 1803–1890. 2. Women teachers—Connecticut—Biography. 3. Women teachers—Illinois—Biography. 4. Discrimination in education—Law and legislation—Connecticut. 5. School integration—Connecticut—History. I. Title.

LA2317.C73W55 2014

371.100922—dc23

[B] 2013046113

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Cover illustration: Francis Alexander, portrait of Prudence Crandall. Oil painting, #6953. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.