Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832
$24.99A landmark story of courage and defiance in the face of injustice. In 1832, Prudence Crandall opens a school for young girls in Canterbury, Connecticut. The town welcomes it, thinking educating girls is harmless. But when Crandall announces she will welcome Black girls, the community erupts in hostility. Thirty years before the abolition of slavery,…