Miner, Myrtilla
Miner Normal School
Moten, Lucy
School principals -- Washington (D.C.) -- Miner Normal School
The prominent African American educator, Dr. Lucy Moten (1851-1933), was the first African American principal of Miner Normal School. She served in this capacity from 1883 until 1921. At the time she was principal, Miner was a two-year public...
Miner, Myrtilla;
Miner Normal School;
Miner Teachers College
Program marking the 100th anniversary of Myrtilla Miner founding her school, which later became Miner Normal School, and then Miner Teachers College in 1929.
Briggs, Martha
Clark, Eugene A.
Miner, Myrtilla
miner Normal School
Miner Teachers College
Moten, Lucy
School principals -- Washington (D.C.) -- Miner Normal School
Smith, Mary P.
Turner, J. Arthur
Whitehead, Matthew
Pictured here are four of the seven principals/presidents of Miner Normal School/Miner Teachers College. These individuals provided day to day leadership of the school from 1851 to 1951. The seven principals/presidents were: 1) Myrtilla Miner...
College Theater -- Washington (D.C.) -- Miner Teachers College;
Miner Teachers College;
Cooke, Paul P.
One of the most important productions of the Miner Dramatics Club was “The Life of Myrtilla Miner, a play written by Dr. Paul P. Cooke, then an English instructor, and presented during Miner’s Centennial Observance in March 1951
Education;
Education -- Law and Legislation;
Miner, Myrtilla;
Miner Teachers College
Myrtilla Miner’s school was inactive for a lack of funds between 1860 and 1871. A bill considered in the US Senate to incorporate the Institution for Colored Youth in Washington, DC, Feb. 17, 1863. This institution incorporated in 1863.
In...
Miner, Myrtilla;
Miner Normal School;
Moten, Lucy;
School principals – Washington (D.C.) -- Miner Normal School
Lucy Moten, Principal of Miner Normal School and John Nalle, Supervising Principal of DC Public Schools, observe a student teacher from Miner School. Miss Moten took a “progressive” approach to training teachers, arguing that the function of...
Miner, Myrtilla
Miner Normal School
Moten, Lucy
School principals -- Washington (D.C.) -- Miner Normal School
Lucy Moten, Principal of Miner Normal School and John Nalle, Supervising Principal of DC Public Schools, observe a student teacher from Miner School. Miss Moten took a “progressive” approach to training teachers, arguing that the function of...
African Americans -- Education;
Miner Normal School;
Miner Teachers College;
Mytrilla Miner;
Teachers, Training of
Illustration of Myrtilla Miner (1815-1864), founder of the Miner School, which became Miner Teachers College. Miss Miner was a native of New York, and had also taught planters’ daughters in Mississippi. Miss Miner became determined to improve the...
Ellen O'Connor served as Secretary of the Institution for the Education of Colored Youth. She wrote this biography of Myrtilla Miner, founder of Miner Normal School, based on Miss Miner's personal papers, the recollections of Ms. Miner's...
As part of the centennial celebration of Myrtilla Miner founding the school, Miner Teacher College officials and descendants of Ms. Miner held a ceremony at her gravesite, on March 7, 1951, at Oak Hill Cemetery, in Georgetown, DC.
As part of the centennial celebration of Myrtilla Miner founding the school, Miner Teacher College officials and descendants of Ms. Miner held a ceremony at her gravesite, at Oak Hill Cemetery, in Georgetown. Dr. Garnet Wilkinson, First Assistant,...
