Sarah Harris Fayerweather

Sarah Harris Fayerweather (April 16, 1812 – November 16, 1878) was an African-American activist, abolitionist, and school integrationist. Beginning in January 1833, at the age of twenty, she attended Prudence Crandall's Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut, the first integrated school in the United States.

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