She Stood Alone

Release Date: 1991-04-15

Overview: Prudence Crandall establishes herself in Cantenbury, and starts a girls-school. When Eliza Harris, a black girl, wants to take lessons at this school, the local people resist and forbid their daughters to go to the school any longer. William Lloyd Garrison, writer of The Liberator, helps Prudence to turn her school to a black girls-school.

Rating: 7.5 / 10

Cast

Mare Winningham

as Prudence Crandall

Monica Calhoun

as Eliza Hammond

Chris Anthony Lansdowne

as Catherine Ann

Kimberly Bailey

as Sarah Harris

Wilson Bell

as Charles