poster

1991

(04/15/1991) (US)

Drama, TV Movie,

0h 0m

75

User Score

She risked her life, her love and her freedom for what she believed in.

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.

1991

75

User Score

(04/15/1991) (US)

Drama, TV Movie,

0h 0m

She risked her life, her love and her freedom for what she believed in.

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.

Cast

Mare Winningham

Mare Winningham

Prudence Crandall

Monica Calhoun

Monica Calhoun

Eliza Hammond

Kimberly Bailey

Kimberly Bailey

Sarah Harris

Taurean Blacque

Taurean Blacque

William Harris

Ben Cross

Ben Cross

William Lloyd Garrison

Daniel Davis

Daniel Davis

Parker Elsworth

Robert Desiderio

Robert Desiderio

Andrew Gibson

H. Richard Greene

H. Richard Greene

Dr. Rufus Adams

F. William Parker

F. William Parker

Daniel Frost