Book cover for The Forbidden Schoolhouse

The Forbidden Schoolhouse

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
ISBN13: 9780618473021
Format: VOICEText
Description
They threw rocks and rotten eggs at the school windows. Villagers refused to sell Miss Crandall groceries or let her students attend the town church. Mysteriously, her schoolhouse was set on fire—by whom and how remains a mystery. The town authorities dragged her to jail and put her on trial for breaking the law.

Her crime? Trying to teach African American girls geography, history, reading, philosophy, and chemistry. Trying to open and maintain one of the first African American schools in America.

Exciting and eye-opening, this account of the heroine of Canterbury, Connecticut, and her elegant white schoolhouse at the center of town will give readers a glimpse of what it is like to try to change the world when few agree with you.
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
ISBN10 0618473025
ISBN13 9780618473021
Number of Pages 160
File Size DL-46MB
Shelf Number JX877
Grade Range 5 - 6
Ages 9 - 12
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download