She Stood Alone

She Stood Alone

April 15, 1991

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.

She Stood Alone

April 15, 1991

She Stood Alone
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.
Producers
Original title She Stood Alone
Directors Jack Gold
Writers Bruce Franklin Singer

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

Taurean Blacque

as William Harris

Ben Cross

as William Lloyd Garrison

Daniel Davis

as Parker Elsworth

Robert Desiderio

as Andrew Gibson

H. Richard Greene

as Dr. Rufus Adams

Ronald William Lawrence

as Frederick Olney

F. William Parker

as Daniel Frost