Prudence Crandall

Author : Donald E. Williams
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780819574718

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Prudence Crandall's Legacy by Donald E. Williams Pdf

The “compelling and lively” story of a pioneering abolitionist schoolteacher and her far-reaching influence on civil rights and American law (Richard S. Newman, author of Freedom’s Prophet). When Prudence Crandall, a Canterbury, Connecticut schoolteacher, accepted a black woman as a student, she unleashed a storm of controversy that catapulted her to national notoriety, and drew the attention of the most significant pro- and anti-slavery activists of the early nineteenth century. The Connecticut state legislature passed its infamous Black Law in an attempt to close down her school. Crandall was arrested and jailed—but her legal legacy had a lasting impact. Crandall v. State was the first full-throated civil rights case in U.S. history. The arguments by attorneys in Crandall played a role in two of the most fateful Supreme Court decisions, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. In this book, author and lawyer Donald E. Williams Jr. marshals a wealth of detail concerning the life and work of Prudence Crandall, her unique role in the fight for civil rights, and her influence on legal arguments for equality in America that, in the words of Brown v. Board attorney Jack Greenberg, “serves to remind us once more about how close in time America is to the darkest days of our history.” “The book offers substantive and well-rounded portraits of abolitionists, colonizationists, and opponents of black equality―portraits that really dig beneath the surface to explain the individuals’ motivations, weaknesses, politics, and life paths.” ―The New England Quarterly “Taking readers from Connecticut schoolrooms to the highest court in the land, [Williams] gives us heroes and villains, triumph and tragedy, equity and injustice on the rough road to full freedom.” —Richard S. Newman, author of Freedom’s Prophet

Author : Eileen Lucas
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781575055572

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Prudence Crandall by Eileen Lucas Pdf

When Prudence Crandall opened a school for young girls in 1831, she didn't expect trouble. But that is just what she got when she allowed African American girls to attend. A Quaker and abolitionist, Prudence defied the prejudiced attitudes and violent actions of those around her and fought to keep her school open when few others would have dared.

Author : Suzanne Jurmain
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618473025

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The Forbidden Schoolhouse by Suzanne Jurmain Pdf

Describes Prudence Crandall's violently-resisted attempts to educate African-American girls in Connecticut in the 1830's.

Author : Elizabeth Alexander,Marilyn Nelson
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1590784561

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Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color by Elizabeth Alexander,Marilyn Nelson Pdf

ALSC Notable Children's Book Here is the story of Miss Prudence Crandall and her black students, who endured the cruelty of prejudice and hateful actions for the sake of their education. Miss Crandall faced legal proceedings for opening her school of African American women. But her young students knew that Miss Crandall had committed no crime. They knew that the real criminals were the rich white residents of Canterbury, Connecticut, who had poisoned the school's water and set fire to the schoolhouse. But hatred could not destroy their patience and compassion. From March of 1833 to September of 1834, when persecution forced the school to close, these African American women learned that they deserved an education. What they needed was the courage to go after it. Poets Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson have re-created the remarkable story of Prudence Crandall's school in this award-winning book, using the sonnet form with innovative style. Floyd Cooper's powerful illustrations reveal the strength and vulnerability of Miss Crandall and her students.

Author : Edmund Fuller
Publisher : Wesleyan
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015031478392

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Prudence Crandall by Edmund Fuller Pdf

Author : Jessie Carney Smith,Shirelle Phelps
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0810391775

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Notable Black American Women by Jessie Carney Smith,Shirelle Phelps Pdf

Arranged alphabetically from "Alice of Dunk's Ferry" to "Jean Childs Young," this volume profiles 312 Black American women who have achieved national or international prominence.

Author : Radcliffe College
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 2172 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674627342

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Notable American Women, 1607-1950 by Radcliffe College Pdf

Vol. 1. A-F, Vol. 2. G-O, Vol. 3. P-Z modern period.

Author : Peter J. Parish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134261895

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Reader's Guide to American History by Peter J. Parish Pdf

There are so many books on so many aspects of the history of the United States, offering such a wide variety of interpretations, that students, teachers, scholars, and librarians often need help and advice on how to find what they want. The Reader's Guide to American History is designed to meet that need by adopting a new and constructive approach to the appreciation of this rich historiography. Each of the 600 entries on topics in political, social and economic history describes and evaluates some 6 to 12 books on the topic, providing guidance to the reader on everything from broad surveys and interpretive works to specialized monographs. The entries are devoted to events and individuals, as well as broader themes, and are written by a team of well over 200 contributors, all scholars of American history.

Author : Mark S. Weiner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307425034

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Black Trials by Mark S. Weiner Pdf

From a brilliant young legal scholar comes this sweeping history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told through the stories of fourteen legal cases that helped to shape our nation. Spanning three centuries, Black Trials details the legal challenges and struggles that helped define the ever-shifting identity of blacks in America. From the well-known cases of Plessy v. Ferguson and the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings to the more obscure trial of Joseph Hanno, an eighteenth-century free black man accused of murdering his wife and bringing smallpox to Boston, Weiner recounts the essential dramas of American identity—illuminating where our conception of minority rights has come from and where it might go. Significant and enthralling, these are the cases that forced the courts and the country to reconsider what it means to be black in America, and Mark Weiner demonstrates their lasting importance for our society.

Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : 9781584777397

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Abolitionists in Northern Courts by Paul Finkelman Pdf

Reprinted from the Garland series: Slavery, Race and the American Legal System, 1700-1872, the 13 pamphlets in this collection address cases that led to the abolition of slavery, cases against free blacks and abolitionists and cases dealing with race laws. "[The volumes in this series] belong in every library used for research, and in particular at all law school libraries. They will prove valuable to historians, lawyers, law teachers and students, and all persons interested in the problems of slavery and race in American experience." --William M. Wiecek, American Journal of Legal History 33 (1989) 187

Author : Keith Beutler
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813946511

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George Washington's Hair by Keith Beutler Pdf

Mostly hidden from public view, like an embarrassing family secret, scores of putative locks of George Washington’s hair are held, more than two centuries after his death, in the collections of America’s historical societies, public and academic archives, and museums. Excavating the origins of these bodily artifacts, Keith Beutler uncovers a forgotten strand of early American memory practices and emerging patriotic identity. Between 1790 and 1840, popular memory took a turn toward the physical, as exemplified by the craze for collecting locks of Washington’s hair. These new, sensory views of memory enabled African American Revolutionary War veterans, women, evangelicals, and other politically marginalized groups to enter the public square as both conveyors of these material relics of the Revolution and living relics themselves. George Washington’s Hair introduces us to a taxidermist who sought to stuff Benjamin Franklin’s body, an African American storyteller brandishing a lock of Washington’s hair, an evangelical preacher burned in effigy, and a schoolmistress who politicized patriotic memory by privileging women as its primary bearers. As Beutler recounts in vivid prose, these and other ordinary Americans successfully enlisted memory practices rooted in the physical to demand a place in the body politic, powerfully contributing to antebellum political democratization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : IND:30000098260270

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CRM by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul D. Buchanan
Publisher : Branden Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9780828321600

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The American Women's Rights Movement by Paul D. Buchanan Pdf

More than 140 entries in this book depict events which have had lasting national significance in opening opportunities in the struggle for equal civil rights and opportunities for women. The impact of many of the included events was initially felt on a local level; but in time it created repercussions that spread across the country. These stories show women assuming roles of providers and heads of households, and their leadership, exerted in and outside the home, would often manifest in the community at large and, in turn, in the nation and in the world. The book is divided into four parts: OneThe Seeds Are planted; Two19th CenturyThe Movement Takes Root; Three20th CenturyReaching for the Sunlight; Four21st CenturyComing into Full Bloom. The book begins with Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer and ends with Condoleezza Rice, Nan

Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479815418

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Elder Care in Crisis by Emily K. Abel Pdf

Explains why there is a crisis in caring for elderly people and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated it Because government policies are based on an ethic of family responsibility, repeated calls to support family members caring for the burgeoning elderly population have gone unanswered. Without publicly funded long-term care services, many family caregivers cannot find relief from obligations that threaten to overwhelm them. The crisis also stems from the plight of direct care workers (nursing home assistants and home health aides), most of whom are women from racially marginalized groups who receive little respect, remuneration, or job security. Drawing on an online support group for people caring for spouses and partners with dementia, Elder Care in Crisis examines the availability and quality of respite care (which provides temporary relief from the burdens of care), the long, tortuous process through which family members decide whether to move spouses and partners to institutions, and the likelihood that caregivers will engage in political action to demand greater public support. When the pandemic began, caregivers watched in horror as nursing homes turned into deathtraps and then locked their doors to visitors. Terrified by the possibility of loved ones in nursing homes contracting the disease or suffering from loneliness, some caregivers brought them home. Others endured the pain of leaving relatives with severe cognitive impairments at the hospital door and the difficulties of sheltering in place with people with dementia who could not understand safety regulations or describe their symptoms. Direct care workers were compelled to accept unsafe conditions or leave the labor force. At the same time, however, the disaster provided an impetus for change and helped activists and scholars develop a vision of a future in which care is central to social life. Elder Care in Crisis exposes the harrowing state of growing old in America, offering concrete solutions and illustrating why they are necessary.

Author : J.D. Dickey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643139296

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The Republic of Violence by J.D. Dickey Pdf

A New York Times bestselling author reveals the story of a nearly forgotten moment in American history, when mass violence was not an aberration, but a regular activity—and nearly extinguished the Abolition movement. The 1830s were the most violent time in American history outside of war. Men battled each other in the streets in ethnic and religious conflicts, gangs of party henchmen rioted at the ballot box, and assault and murder were common enough as to seem unremarkable. The president who presided over the era, Andrew Jackson, was himself a duelist and carried lead in his body from previous gunfights. It all made for such a volatile atmosphere that a young Abraham Lincoln said “outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times.” The principal targets of mob violence were abolitionists and black citizens, who had begun to question the foundation of the U.S. economy — chattel slavery — and demand an end to it. Led by figures like William Lloyd Garrison and James Forten, the anti-slavery movement grew from a small band of committed activists to a growing social force that attracted new followers in the hundreds, and enemies in the thousands. Even in the North, abolitionists faced almost unimaginable hatred, with newspaper publishers, businessmen with a stake in the slave trade, and politicians of all stripes demanding they be suppressed, silenced or even executed. Carrying bricks and torches, guns and knives, mobs created pandemonium, and forced the abolition movement to answer key questions as it began to grow: Could nonviolence work in the face of arson and attempted murder? Could its leaders stick together long enough to build a movement with staying power, or would they turn on each other first? And could it survive to last through the decade, and inspire a new generation of activists to fight for the cause? J.D. Dickey reveals the stories of these Black and white men and women persevered against such threats to demand that all citizens be given the chance for freedom and liberty embodied in the Declaration of Independence. Their sacrifices and strategies would set a precedent for the social movements to follow, and lead the nation toward war and emancipation, in the most turbulent era of our republic of violence.