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  • Democratic candidate for mayor Vince Gray greeted voters at Myrtilla Miner Elementary School, his last stop in Ward 6.

    Gray visits Ward 6, hears Rosedale concerns Christopher Dean Hopkins 2010

  • With help from the Quakers and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Myrtilla Miner, a white woman from New York, mounted the first organized effort to provide higher education for black women.

    Failing at FAIRNESS Myra David Sadker 2003

  • With help from the Quakers and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Myrtilla Miner, a white woman from New York, mounted the first organized effort to provide higher education for black women.

    Failing at FAIRNESS Myra David Sadker 2003

  • With help from the Quakers and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Myrtilla Miner, a white woman from New York, mounted the first organized effort to provide higher education for black women.

    Failing at FAIRNESS Myra David Sadker 2003

  • Miss Myrtilla Miner who has established and maintained for the past four years in the city of Washington a school for the education of free colored youth.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Various

  • [7] This statement is based on information obtained from Mrs. John F.N. Wilkinson and Mrs. Amelia E. Wormley, who were pupils of Myrtilla

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Various

  • Oh, it was a long time since Grandmother had been Myrtilla at seventeen!

    The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931

  • Lambert Babb attempted to embrace Myrtilla, but, her gaze on the newcomer, she pushed him away.

    The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • "Don't chip at a man like that," Myrtilla advised.

    The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Myrtilla heatedly asserted; "one who'd appreciate a real man, and not be playing about private with a tailor's dummy."

    The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

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