Major leaders in women's education/ their accomplishments

Sarah Grimké and her sister Angelina, spoke out against gender inequality in their letters on "The equality of the sexes and the condition of woman (1838)".
In 1821, Emma Willard opened the nations first academically excelled school for girls in Troy, New York.
In 1837, Mary Lyon overcame resistance and created another academically excelled school for girls called Mount Holyoke female seminary.
In 1831, white Quaker Prudence Crandall opened a school for girls in Canterbury. Two years later he admitted an African American girl and this angered townspeople. He then decided to only admit African American girls.