1832 Established the first racially integrated school in the United States.

In 1831 Crandall purchased the Elisha Payne house, with her sister Almira Crandall, to establish the Canterbury Female Boarding School. With the help of her sister and a maid, she taught about forty children in different subjects including geography, history, grammar, arithmetic, reading, and writing. The school flourished until September 1832, when Sarah Harris, the daughter of a free African-American farmer near Canterbury, asked to be accepted to the school to prepare for teaching other African Americans. Although Crandall was uncertain about whether to admit Harris, whom she liked, she consulted her Bible; she then admitted the girl. With this, Crandell establishing the first integrated school in the United States.

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Category:
Education - Racial Integration

Completion Status:
yes

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