Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-23
TAUGHT C0LORED PEOPLE Prudence ClsndalI was psrsecuted For t tin the Good Old Colonial
 Days
TO ERREcT A MEMORIAL

Canterbury, Nov 23.-A movement is on foot here to erect memorial on Caterbury green for Prudence Crandall who was persecuted by her townspeople for no other reason than the teaching colored children how to read. Many of the residents have suggested that the memorial if 1t takes the form of segment of gran ite, or powder, be set up near the grave of good Elder Levi Kneeland, the founder of the Packerville church, who befriended and defended Miss Crandall
 Prudence Crandall was the daugh- ter of Quaker parents and was born in Hopkinton, R. l., on September 8. 1903. She was reared in the strict discipline of the Society of Friends, as was her brother Hezekiah. Her school training was excellent and when young woman she taught school at Plainfleld. N. H., and later came here and opened an academy for young women.
 Windham families became much attached to the academy and its ex- cellent reputation brought under it's roof many students from distant cit les. In the fall of 1892 Miss Gran dall admitted to the academy Sarah Harris, colored. Trouble began and Miss Crandall was waited upon by a committee headed by Andrew T. Jud- son, the district attorney and candi- date for federal judge at the time. She was asked to send Miss Harris away. The outcome was that on March 2, 1883, Miss Crandall insert ed an advertisement in the Liberator that thereafter she would teach only colored girls. The country side was aroused and Miss Crandall was the subject of much annoyance, and week later town meeting was held to consider the matter. Mir Judson conducted the argument against Miss Crandall which took much the form of trial. She was placed in Brook lyn jail for two or three days as the outcome of the meeting, but the charge against her was not definitely formulated, but was in effect that of shielding colored girls. Rev Mir Kneeland also went to the same jail for shielding Miss Crandall. Cap- tain Daniel Packer secured their re- lease by giving bonds. Miss Cran- dall afterwards married Rev Calvin Philo, Baptist clergyman, and went to the far wAst,- living most of the f1vno In Kapaaa uu d TI1toalo CA~ ataa about ten years ago. Her brother and other members of the family lived nearly all their lives in Can terbury, honored and respected by all. Miss Crandall was at one time the recipient of pension of $400 a year and the bill graning this was introduced by a Canterbury represen- tative.
 The movers in the plan for me- morial are confident of securing enough funds to permit of the un- yelling of the memorial on March g next. the seventy-fourth anniversary of her conviction by town meeting. This Is not the first attempt to put up a stone in her memory. for some years ago the Crispus Attucks lodge of Knights of Pythias of Boston, Mass, proposed to do this. but the memorial did not materialize. The present plan is to have a big stone to be selected from the township ground set uu. on which a plate may be placed giving simply her name and dates of death and birth. leaving the story of her persecution to be told by Canterbury people. many of whom have blood ties with the Crandall family.