She Stood Alone
She risked her life, her love and her freedom for what she believed in.
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
Prudence Crandall
Monica Calhoun
Eliza Hammond
Kimberly Bailey
Sarah Harris
Taurean Blacque
William Harris
Ben Cross
William Lloyd Garrison
Robert Desiderio
Andrew Gibson
H. Richard Greene
Dr. Rufus Adams
Ronald William Lawrence
Frederick Olney
F. William Parker
Daniel Frost
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