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The Friends of Fort Trumbull to present a program on Prudence Crandall
On Thursday, May 27, 2021, the Friends of Fort Trumbull will present a program on Prudence Crandall, the Connecticut State Hero. Because of Covid-19, this program will be presented on Zoom as part of the Friends 2021 program on Women s Suffrage.
Many people know that Crandall established an early academy for African-American women in 1833; however, few realize that she also participated in the Woman Suffrage Movement and other social justice reforms after leaving Connecticut. Joan DiMartino will share how Crandall continued her activism years after her school closed, focusing on her work with women s rights. As Crandall once said, I venture to enlist in the ranks of those who…dare hold combat with prevailing iniquity.
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The Friends of Fort Trumbull to present a program on Prudence Crandall
On Thursday, May 27, 2021, the Friends of Fort Trumbull will present a program on Prudence Crandall, the Connecticut State Hero. Because of Covid-19, this program will be presented on Zoom as part of the Friends 2021 program on Women s Suffrage.
Many people know that Crandall established an early academy for African-American women in 1833; however, few realize that she also participated in the Woman Suffrage Movement and other social justice reforms after leaving Connecticut. Joan DiMartino will share how Crandall continued her activism years after her school closed, focusing on her work with women s rights. As Crandall once said, I venture to enlist in the ranks of those who…dare hold combat with prevailing iniquity.
A fundraising effort is underway to bring the first Toni Morrison Society-inspired bench in the state to a Canterbury museum dedicated to the story of a 19th century local civil rights icon and a Black student yearning to become a teacher.
Anne Mahoney, the state’s attorney for the Windham Judicial District, is working with the Prudence Crandall Museum, town officials and the Sustainability CT group to bring a 6-foot steel bench to the South Canterbury Road museum.
Mahoney said her role in the effort began with a fundraising event years ago at Norwich’s Otis Library in which attendees at an author’s forum were invited to bid on displayed gifts. Mahoney ended up winning one of those items, a trip to Hilton Head, S.C.