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But, as we have seen, suffrage was only one small aspect of what the W.R.M. was all about. A hundred years of brilliant personalities and important events have also been erased from American history. The women orators who fought off mobs, in the days when women were not allowed to speak in public, to attack Family, Church, and State, who traveled on poor railways to cow towns of the West to talk to small groups of socially starved women, were quite a bit more dramatic than the Scarlett O' Haras and Harriet Beecher Stowes and all the Little Women who have come down to us. Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, freed slaves who went back time and again, with huge prices on their heads, to free other slaves on their own plantations, were more effective politically than the ill-fated John Brown. But most people today have never even heard of Myrtilla Miner, Prudence Crandall, Abigail Scott Duniway, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Ernestine Rose, the Claflin sisters, Crystal Eastman, Clara Lemlich, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Doris Stevens, Anne Martin. And this ignorance is nothing compared to ignorance of the lives of women of the stature of Margaret Fuller, Fanny Wright, the Grimké sisters, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Stanton Blatch, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Paul.

And yet we know about Louisa May Alcott, Clara Barton, and Florence Nightingale, just as we know about, rather than Nat Turner, the triumph of Ralph Bunche, or George Washington Carver and the peanut. The omission of vital characters from standard versions of American history in favor of such goody-good models cannot be tossed off. Just as it would be dangerous to inspire still-oppressed black children with admiration for the Nat Turners of their history, so it is with the W.R.M.: The suspicious blanks in our history books concerning feminism—or else the confusion of the whole W.R.M. with the (conservative) suffrage movement or the reformist women's groups of the Progressive Era—is no accident.

It is part of a backlash we are still undergoing in reaction to the first feminist struggle. The few strong models allowed girls growing up in the fifty-year silence have been carefully chosen ones, women like Eleanor Roosevelt, of the altruistic feminine tradition, as opposed to the healthily selfish giants of the radical feminist rebellion. This cultural backlash was to be expected. Men of those days grasped immediately the true nature of a feminist movement, recognizing it as a serious threat to their open and unashamed power over woman. They may have been forced to buy off the women's movement with confusing surface reforms—a correction of the most blatant inequalities on the books, a few changes of dress, sex, style ("you've come a long way, baby"), all of which coincidentally benefited men. But the power stayed in their hands.

-Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

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Women, Race, and Class Ch 6

The mystifying powers of racism often emanate from its irrational, topsy-turvy logic. According to the prevailing ideology. Black people were allegedly incapable of intellectual advancement. After all, they had been chattel, naturally inferior as compared to the white epitomes of humankind. But if they really were biologically inferior, they would have manifested neither the desire nor the capability to acquire knowledge. Ergo, no prohibition of learning would have been necessary. In reality, of course, Black people had always exhibited a furious impatience as regards the acquisition of education.

The yearning for knowledge had always been there. As early as 1787, Black people petitioned the state of Massachusetts for the right to attend Boston’s free schools. After the petition was rejected. Prince Hall, who was the leader of this initiative, established a school in his own home. Perhaps the most stunning illustration of this early demand for education was the work of an African-born woman who was a former slave. In 1793 Lucy Terry Prince boldly demanded an audience before the trustees of the newly established Williams College for Men, who had refused to admit her son into the school. Unfortunately, the racist prejudices were so strong that Lucy Prince’s logic and eloquence could not sway the trustees of this Vermont institution. Yet she aggressively defended her people’s desire for — and right to — education. Two years later Lucy Terry Prince successfully defended a land claim before the highest court of the land, and according to surviving records, she remains the first woman to have addressed the Supreme Court of the United States.

Seventeen ninety-three was also the year an ex-slave woman, who had purchased her freedom, established a school in the city of New York which was known as Katy Ferguson’s School for the Poor. Her pupils, whom she recruited from the poorhouse, were both Black and white (twenty-eight and twenty respectively) 11 and were quite possibly both boys and girls. Forty years later the young white teacher Prudence Crandall steadfastly defended Black girls’ right to attend her Canterbury, Connecticut, school. Crandall persistently taught her Black pupils until she was dragged off to jail for refusing to shut down her school. Margaret Douglass was another white woman who was imprisoned in Norfolk, Virginia, for operating a school for Black children.

The most outstanding examples of white women’s sisterly solidarity with Black women are associated with Black people’s historical struggle for education. Like Prudence Crandall and Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner literally risked her life as she sought to impart knowledge to young Black women. In 1851, when she initiated her project to establish a Black teachers’ college in Washington, D.C., she had already instructed Black children in Mississippi, a state where education for Blacks was a criminal offense.

....By the time of the Hayes Betrayal and the overthrow of Radical Reconstruction, the accomplishments in education had become one of the most powerful proofs of progress during that potentially revolutionary era. Fisk University, Hampton Institute and several other Black colleges and universities had been established in the post-Civil War South. J Some 247,333 pupils were attending 4,329 schools — and these were the building blocks for the South’s first public school system, which would benefit Black and white children alike. Although the post-Reconstruction period and the attendant rise of Jim Crow education drastically diminished Black people’s educational opportunities, the impact of the Reconstruction experience could not be entirely obliterated. The dream of land was shattered for the time being and the hope for political equality waned. But the beacon of knowledge was not easily extinguished — and this was the guarantee that the fight for land and for political power would unrelentingly go on.

[lboogie1906]

The University of the District of Columbia is a public land-grant HBCU and a member of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. UDC is historic and modern, all at the same time. Public higher education in the District is rooted in the school for “colored girls” that Myrtilla Miner founded in 1851, which came to be called the Miner Normal School. Washington Normal School, a school for white girls established in 1873, was renamed Wilson Normal School in 1913. In 1929, Congress enacted a statute that converted both normal schools into four-year teachers’ colleges. For several years, Miner Teachers College and Wilson Teachers College were the only institutions of public higher education in the city. After the landmark SCOTUS school desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the two colleges merged in 1955 to form the District of Columbia Teachers College. DC residents petitioned for an expansion of elevated education that would provide training for careers other than teaching. In 1966, Congress enacted the District of Columbia Public Education Act.

Many Washingtonians continued to advocate for a comprehensive university. The City Council authorized the consolidation of the three schools, and in 1976, began the task of creating a new University of the District of Columbia. In 1977, under President Carter’s leadership, UDC began consolidating its academic programs. These efforts culminated in the establishment of five colleges: Business and Public Management; Education and Human Ecology; Liberal and Fine Arts; Life Sciences; Physical Science, Engineering, and Technology; and University College and Continuing Education.

UDC continues to transform itself over time to meet the changing needs of its students and the community. The University offers 81 undergraduate and graduate academic degree programs through the following colleges and schools: College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences; College of Arts and Sciences; School of Business and Public Administration; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; the Community College and David A. Clarke School of Law. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #hbcu

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La legge di Murphy: lo strano caso di Myrtilla http://www.diggita.it/v.php?id=1636870

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"Im takin your soul"

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2nd HBCU: The University of the District of Columbia

The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is a historically black, public university located in Washington, D.C.

KNOWN FOR: 

- It was established in 1851 and is the only public university in the city.

- Known as the “Miner Normal School,” as a school to educate Black women.

- Is a public historically black land-grant university.

-  The university's academic schools and programs include the UDC Community College.

- The University of the District of Columbia was established in 1851 as the Normal School for Colored Girls. Predecessor to UDC.

- Myrtilla Miner founded the Normal School for Colored Girls. 

- A merger of the institutions was approved in 1975, and on August 1, 1977, the three institutions were formally consolidated as the University of the District of Columbia, with Lisle C. Carter named its first president

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The Berry Sisters Myrtilla & Llahuén🍓 . . . . #sisterhood #sisters #hermanas #berrysisters #acuarela #watercolourdrawing #watercolours #portrait #familyportrait #illustration #ilustracion #amordehermana #sisterlove #fresasilvestre #wildstrawberry #blueberry #mirtillo (hier: Im Wald) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIQzf7JB6jv/?igshid=3inmgszsjugg

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@laura-a-stern‘s Dungeons and Dragons Character Myrtilla

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Countless black children and teachers received high quality educations because of the determination of white abolitionist and educator Myrtilla Miner who established The Miner School for Colored Girls in 1851. After the Civil War, the school reopened as the Institution for the Education of Colored Youth in 1863 and from 1871 until 1876 it was associated with Howard University as the Miner Normal School. In 1929 it became accredited by the U.S. Congress as Miner Teachers College and today it survives as the University of the District of Columbia. In her interview for The HistoryMakers, educator Barbara Dodson Walker told of her mother, Naomi Althea Neal and how she then used her Minor Normal School education to educate others: “She went on to teach in the South. She went to North Carolina to Greensboro to teach... and then she taught at Lyles-Crouch School in Alexandria and she came back to Washington and she taught at Mrs. Howard's Nursery School which was a private nursery school where she taught grades one to three. When children came out of nursery school, they were just tops because they had one on one education.” Image: First graders from Miner Normal School, ca. 1910 (at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdZMwVVvJsm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lboogie1906]

The University of the District of Columbia is a public land-grant HBCU and a member of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. UDC is historic and modern, all at the same time. Public higher education in the District is rooted in the school for “colored girls” that Myrtilla Miner founded in 1851, which came to be called the Miner Normal School. Washington Normal School, a school for white girls established in 1873, was renamed Wilson Normal School in 1913. In 1929, Congress enacted a statute that converted both normal schools into four-year teachers' colleges. For several years, Miner Teachers College and Wilson Teachers College were the only institutions of public higher education in the city. After the landmark SCOTUS school desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the two colleges merged in 1955 to form the District of Columbia Teachers College. DC residents petitioned for an expansion of elevated education that would provide training for careers other than teaching. In 1966, Congress enacted the District of Columbia Public Education Act. Many Washingtonians continued to advocate for a comprehensive university. The City Council authorized the consolidation of the three schools, and in 1976, began the task of creating a new University of the District of Columbia. In 1977, under President Carter’s leadership, UDC began consolidating its academic programs. These efforts culminated in the establishment of five colleges: Business and Public Management; Education and Human Ecology; Liberal and Fine Arts; Life Sciences; Physical Science, Engineering, and Technology; and University College and Continuing Education. UDC continues to transform itself over time to meet the changing needs of its students and the community. The University offers 81 undergraduate and graduate academic degree programs through the following colleges and schools: College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences; College of Arts and Sciences; School of Business and Public Administration; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; the Community College and David A. Clarke School of Law. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/Co9riOpLuU4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Hyperallergic: A Newly Discovered Photograph of Harriet Tubman Heads to Auction

Carte-de-visite of Harriet Tubman, found in an album from the 1860s (all photos courtesy Swann Auction Galleries)

A previously unrecorded photograph of Harriet Tubman has resurfaced from an album of cartes-de-visite, showing a considerably younger image of the abolitionist than those captured in other known portraits. Likely taken between 1865 and 1868 — right at the end of the Civil War, when she was in her mid-40s — it depicts her in full, seated calmly on a chair, wearing a checkered skirt and black blouse. She gazes directly at us, and her expression is resolute but still soft, offering little hint that she spent her previous years devoted to liberating countless slaves.

Silver print of Harriet Tubman

Unlike her fellow abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who holds the title as the most photographed 19th-century American, Harriet Tubman seems to have sat in front of a camera on few occasions: known images of her make up but a small pool. The rare picture, preserved in an album of 44 cartes-de-visite, was taken by an unknown, local photographer in Auburn, where she moved to care for her family after the war. It comes to public eye as the collection is part of a forthcoming sale by Swann Auction Galleries, Printed & Manuscript African Americana. Two Harriet Tubman scholars have verified the rare portrait, according to the auction house.

“The importance of the image was not realized until the previous owner bought it at a small auction and noticed the resemblance, at which point the consignor brought it to Swann,” a Swann representative told Hyperallergic. “Images of many of the black abolitionists like Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth are rare; some by attrition and also because there were not a great many copies generated in the first place.”

The album was once owned by Emily Howland, a schoolteacher born to Quaker abolitionists from Sherwood, New York. Howland herself was an active abolitionist and suffragist since youth, and taught at Myrtilla Miner’s school — an institute for African American girls — before working with newly freed blacks in a contraband camp in Washington that then moved to Arlington, Virginia. It was there at Camp Todd that she found a teaching mentor in one Carrie Nichols, who gifted Howland the album.

Among the object’s treasures is another small, silver print of Tubman showing the more familiar image of her standing with her hands on a chair. That image dates between 1860 and 1876. There’s also a rare photograph of John Willis Menard, the first black man elected to Congress, which specialists believe represents the only known photograph of Menard. It has served as the source of numerous engravings published in newspapers from that period. Other cartes-de-visite from the album portray individuals from antislavery lawyer Charles Sumner and British novelist Charles Dickens to entertainers Commodore Nutt and his wife. And adding a touch of intimate history to the archive is one portrait of a student Howland tutored, identified as Suzie Bruce.

While we may not have a huge visual record of Tubman, we’ll be very familiar with at least one image of her in a few years: as the Treasury Department announced last spring, her face will replace that of Andrew Jackson on a forthcoming $20 bill.

A portrait of John Willis Menard

Portrait of Commodore Nut and his wife

Carte-de-visite of Charles Sumner

h/t The Citizen

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⚘Today my favourite person in the world Myrtilla G.is 6 years old!💜 As every year I made a party invitation, even if it is going to be a strange party... >>>swipe to see the invites of the last 5 years>>> #illustration #kindergeburtstag #birthdayinvitation #childrensbookillustration (hier: Berlin - Kreuzberg) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_XS91mhvAJ/?igshid=1t4dl4huva21n

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Myrtilla smiling #quarantineartclub #quarantineportrait #qacwhodoyoulove (hier: Tempelhofer Feld) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-R-Xw9h9xu/?igshid=6bp3tuhp0ndg

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The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is a public land-grant HBCU. It was established in 1851 as the Normal Schools for Colored Girls and is the only public university in the city. UDC is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. The full university system offers workforce and certificate programs in addition to Associate, Baccalaureate, Master's, professional, and Doctoral degrees. The university's academic schools and programs include the UDC Community College, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Business and Public Administration, Colleges of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability & Environmental Sciences, and David A. Clarke School of Law. Myrtilla Miner founded the Normal School for Colored Girls against considerable racist opposition. The school trained young black women to become teachers. Among its benefactors were the Society of Friends, Henry Ward Beecher, and his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe; Stowe donated $1,000 from the sales of her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Although Mayor Walter Lenox believed that education would make Blacks a "restless population" and residents formed some mobs in opposition to the school, the school remained open until the Civil War began. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CLl-izorWUMuOqARJsnos1HYsJx3aRZhZ1Qfak0/?igshid=1p6h2enzhp7rk

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Myrtilla and her mermaid-twin - - - - - - #vacances #mermaids #merchild #drawing #watercolours #sketchbook #traveldrawing #summer #sirenita #twins #dibujo #mar #cuadernodeviaje #cuadernodedibujo #traveldiary #verano (at Cadaqués) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1JWktUo9FE/?igshid=xiiglwdvlwfy