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Surrounded : America's first school for Black girls, 1832 / writer, Wilfrid Lupano ; artist and colorist, Stéphane Fert ; translation, Montana Kane ; lettering: Cromatik ltd.
Van Pelt Library PN6747.L87 B5313 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lupano, Wilfrid, 1971- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Blanc autour. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- African American girls--Education--Connecticut--Canterbury--Comic books, strips, etc.
- African American girls.
- Free Black people--Education--Connecticut--Canterbury--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Free Black people.
- Race discrimination--Connecticut--Canterbury--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Race discrimination.
- African American students--Comic books, strips, etc.
- African American students.
- Girls' schools--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Girls' schools.
- Racism--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Racism.
- Canterbury Female Boarding School (Canterbury, Conn.)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Canterbury Female Boarding School (Canterbury, Conn.).
- Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Crandall, Prudence.
- Canterbury (Conn.)--Race relations--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Canterbury (Conn.).
- Genre:
- Historical comics.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels.
- Physical Description:
- 142 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- America's first school for Black girls
- Place of Publication:
- New York : NBM Graphic Novels, [2025]
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the French.
- Summary:
- In 1832, in Canterbury, Connecticut, a " charming and picturesque" little school for young girls opens to accommodate around twenty residents. Educating girls is a bit ridiculous and useless, they think in the area, but harmless enough. Until the day, when the "charming school" led by Prudence Crandall, announces that it will now welcome Black girls... Thirty years before the abolition of slavery, some fifteen young people in the Crandall school are greeted by a wave of hostility of insane proportion. White America is afraid of some of its children. The story of this school and its legal legacy for civil rights cannot be understated. Crandall v. State (of Connecticut) was the first full-throated civil rights case in U.S. history. The arguments by attorneys in the Crandall case played a role in two of the most fateful Supreme Court decisions, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. It catapulted Ms. Crandall into a Civil Rights pioneer.
- Notes:
- Originally published in French as Blanc autour by Dargaud Benelux (Dargaud-Lombard s.a.) in 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781681123486
- 1681123487
- OCLC:
- 1464274368
- Publisher Number:
- 90101670445
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