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    Myrtilla Miner (March 4, 1815, near Brookfield, New York – December 17, 1864, Washington, D.C.) was an American educator and abolitionist whose school...
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    train teachers. As Miner Normal School, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The school was founded by Myrtilla Miner in 1851, with the...
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    College, Federal City College, and Washington Technical Institute. Myrtilla Miner with six pupils founded the Normal School for Colored Girls against...
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    Hopkins worked closely with two of America's most famous abolitionists, Myrtilla Miner and Henry Ward Beecher. During the Civil War, Johns Hopkins, being a...
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  • Miner, American actress Jay Miner, American circuit designer, "father of the Amiga" Myrtilla Miner, American educator and abolitionist Rachel Miner,...
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    daughter of Gerrit Smith, studied at Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary Myrtilla Miner, educator of Blacks, studied at the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary...
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  • friend John Strong, the man she loves. Rachel was first performed at Myrtilla Miner Normal School (a teacher's college) in Washington, DC., by the National...
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    protection, the Edmonson family moved to a cabin on the grounds. Emily and Myrtilla Miner, the founder of the school, learned to shoot. Emily taught for black...
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    Ritchie (see Colgate Maroon-News#History) 2013 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Myrtilla Miner John Rankin Jonathan Walker 2016 Rev. John Gregg Fee Beriah Green Angelina...
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    school students in 1877. That same year, the school was renamed the Myrtilla Miner Normal School and became the District's first teacher's college for...
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  • Matthews Merrick (1818–1889), judge and U.S. Representative from Maryland Myrtilla Miner (1815–1864), educator and abolitionist in Washington, D.C. Charles Eli...
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  • Press, 1982. Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner: Champions of Antebellum Black Education. With Josephine F. Pacheco...
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    as a dressmaker in Georgetown. The young Brown was a star student of Myrtilla Miner, an abolitionist who ran a school for black girls in the virulently...
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  • Interior under the Lincoln Administration, was born in Brookfield, NY Myrtilla Miner, educator and abolitionist, was born near Brookfield, NY Brookfield...
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  • Mary Lyon Martha Hillard MacLeish Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills Myrtilla Miner Sarah Luella Miner Anna Morgan Mary Kimball Morgan Mary Mortimer Lucy Ella Moten...
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  • teacher preparation programs. Following Myrtilla Miner's death, Briggs left Howard to serve as principal of the Miner Normal School (now known as University...
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    Labor Committee, 1930 Cooper, William John. 1930. Commencement address. Myrtilla Miner Teachers College, June 19, 1930. Cooper, William John. 1930. Commencement...
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  • Archived from the original on June 15, 2021. Retrieved June 15, 2021. ""Myrtilla Miner: Celebrating a Legacy of Excellence in Education"". University of the...
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    Josephine F. (1984). Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner: Champions of Antebellum Black Education. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood...
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