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Emma Willard opened the first religious school for girls in 1821. She named it The Troy Female Seminary. Mary Lyon was also an institution founder and she made a Seminary named Mount Holyoke. Quaker Prudence Crandall opened a school for girls in Canterbury, CT and accepted only African Americans because of the racism in other schools.