Here before. You all know the history of the historic home of d. C. s most successful brewer. We are not going to be talking about him today. This is a special story for us about Myrtilla Miner. Myrtilla miner opened a school. Ere 1853 Myrtilla Miner who was a white woman from new york moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the minor school for colored girls the miner school for colored girls. She established the school in 1851 with 100 in her pocket. Most people thought it cannot be you bere and worse that arrested or killed when she told them what she wanted to do. Although she rallied support of abolitionists and others that sympathized with her cause, when she came here it was her own independent project. She mightght that have been some kind of tool of the abolition movement, really she came on her own at the start. Schoolst established the by the force of h
Historic home of d. C. s most successful brewer. We are not going to be talking about him today. This is a special story for us about Myrtilla Miner. Myrtilla miner opened a school here. In 1853, Myrtilla Miner who was a white woman from new york moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the miner school for colored girls. She established the school in 1851 with 100 in her pocket. Most people thought it cannot be done here and worse that she could be arrested or killed when she told them what she wanted to do. Although she rallied support of abolitionists and others that sympathized with her cause, when she came here it was her own independent project. I had thought that she might have been some kind of tool of the abolition movement, really she came on her own at the start. She first established the school by the force of her own will, something which is unimaginab
Howard leaders revealed that after several years of vacancy, the Myrtilla Miner Building will undergo a more than $50 million restoration project to house the School of Education (SOE) and the Howard University Middle School of Mathematics & Science by fall 2024. The project, which marks the first of Howard’s $785 million campus-wide construction Master […]