Famous Educators, Notable Teachers, Posters & Prints “Cr...-Cu...-”
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Prudence Crandall
b. 9-3-1803; Hopkinton, RI
d. 1-28-1890; Elk Falls, KS

Quaker Prudence Crandall founded a school for “Young ladies and Misses of color” in Canterbury, Connecticut, creating what is generally regarded as the first integrated classroom in the United States (1833). Her school was not without controversy: she spent a night in jail for breaking “The Black Law” passed in 1834 which prohibited such a school. After violence closed the school she married Rev. Calvin Phileo and moved from the state, finally living with a brother in Kansas.

The law was repealed in 1838, Mark Twain supported an effort to provide Prudence Crandall with a yearly pension in 1886, and she was declared State Heroine by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1995.

• The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students

Ichabod Crane, a fictional character in Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, was a schoolmaster wooing the hand of Katrina van Tassel before he was chased from the community by the Headless Horseman.

Countee Cullen Historic Print

Countee Cullen
b. 3-30-1903; New York or Baltimore
d. 1-9-1946

Countee Cullen was a celebrated author who wrote some of the most beautiful and beloved poems of the Harlem Renaissance. ... Cullen wrote several books of poetry, a novel, a popular play, and two children's books. He also taught junior high school. (One of his students, James Baldwin, would grow up to be a famous writer himself.) Countee Cullen died suddenly in 1946, but his legacy lives on: One of the oldest branches of the New York City Public Library is named for him.

• Poetry Forms posters
• Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets in the Twenties, editor Countee Cullen

Marie Curie,
b. 11-7-1867; Poland
d. 7-4-1934, France

Marie Curie, winner of two Nobel prizes - one for Physics and one for Chemistry - had two daughters, Irene and Eve. Curie earned certificates that allowed her to teach girls and opened a school. FYI- Marie Curie's parents were also teachers.

• more Marie Curie posters
• more Women of Science posters