Library of Congress: Become Part of the Legacy of Abolitionist and Educator, Myrtilla Miner. “In 1851, more than a decade before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, the School for Colored Girls opened in Washington, D.C. with the mission of training Black women educators. The institution was the first of its kind in the District and only the fourth in the nation. Today, the Library of […]
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In the 1400s, a woman fought sexism by imagining a literary ‘City of Ladies’ built on 3 principles