Margaret Crittendon Douglass
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Margaret Crittendon Douglass
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Margaret Crittendon Douglass was a Southern white woman who served one month in jail in 1854 for teaching free black children to read in Norfolk, Virginia. Refusing to hire a defense attorney, she defended herself in court and later published a book about her experiences. The case drew public attention to the highly restrictive laws against black literacy in the pre-Civil War American South.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Crittendon_Douglass
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2015-11-22T17:10:08Z
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2024-09-12T04:59:07Z
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