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	Prudence Crandall
Kansas State Historical Marker
Elk County
	US-160, Elk County Osage Street in Elk Falls , KS, USA

	In 1831, Prudence Crandall, educator, emancipator, and human rights advocate, established a school which in 1833, became the first Black female academy in New England at Canterbury, Connecticut. This later action resulted in her arrest and improsionment for violating the Black Law.