CSPAN3 Myrtilla Miners School For African American Girls September 16, 2017
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...