Prudence Crandall's legacy : the fight for equality in the 1830S, Dred Scott, and Brown V. Board of Education

From Connecticut schoolrooms to the Supreme Court, Donald Williams offers a compelling look at the struggle for Black equality in America. Williams reminds readers that abolitionism was the first Civil Rights Movement and that race reformers like Prudence Crandall struggled to overcome prejudice in the North as well as the South.