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.[1][2][3]
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- ^ Smith, Jessie Carney (1996). Notable Black American Women. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research. p. 218. ISBN 978-0810391772.
- ^ Wormley, G. Smith."Prudence Crandall", The Journal of Negro History Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan. 1923.