In 1833, white Quaker teacher Prudence Crandall reopened her Canterbury academy exclusively for African American girls after admitting one Black student, Sarah Harris, provoked the withdrawal of her white students. Connecticut responded with the "Black Law," criminalizing the education of out-of-state Black students, and Crandall was arrested and tried three times before a mob attack forced the school's closure in 1834. The case, Crandall v. Connecticut, was later cited in both Dred Scott v. Sandford and Brown v. Board of Education, and several of Crandall's students went on to become educators and reformers, including Mary Harris, who helped found what became Dillard University. Crandall is now Connecticut's official state heroine.