Engineering and Science University Magnet School (ESUMS) students Titiladeolua Adeniran and Sahana Bhandary-Alexander have won 1st Place in the Documentary Category at the Connecticut History Day state competition held at CCSU.
Their winning project, "A Trial of Principles: Prudence Crandall’s Case for Education and the Legal Foundation of American Civil Rights," explores the 1833 struggle of schoolteacher Prudence Crandall to educate Black girls in Canterbury, CT. The documentary highlights how this local act of defiance laid the groundwork for the Fourteenth Amendment and the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.
As state champions, Adeniran and Bhandary-Alexander will represent Connecticut at the National History Day competition at the University of Maryland, College Park, this June.