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who believe they should be above scrutiny and want to silence or delegitimize voices that challenge their supremacy

Surrounded: America's First School for Black Girls, 1832 MG_Gift_Guide picture-puzzlingA landmark story of courage and defiance in the face of injustice. In 1832, Prudence Crandall opens a school for young girls in Canterbury, Connecticut. The town welcomes it, thinking educating girls is harmless. But when Crandall announces she will welcome Black girls, the community erupts in hostility. Thirty years before the abolition of slavery, fifteen young Black women face insane prejudice. Surrounded tells the story of Crandall's school and