What denomination did the only school to provide tri-racial students an education follow?
Vardy Community School The Vardy Community School was a Presbyterian mission school established in the Vardy community of Hancock County, Tennessee, United States, in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. At the time of its founding, the school was the only institution providing primary education to children of the multi-racial Melungeon communities, who lived in the remote mountainous areas along the Tennessee-Virginia border.
Prudence Crandall Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 – January 28, 1890) was an American schoolteacher from Rhode Island who was raised as a Quaker in Canterbury, Connecticut. She became known for establishing an academy there for the education of African-American girls and women, after whites boycotted the school when she admitted a student of color. when she devoted her school to girls of color from the region, local townspeople violently opposed the school.