This Noble Woman

Frederick Douglass dismissed Myrtilla's plan to open a school for African American girls in the slaveholding South as "e;reckless, almost to the point of madness."e; But Myrtilla Miner, the daughter of poor white farmers in Madison County, New York, was relentless. Fueled by an unyielding feminist conviction, and against a tide of hostility, on December 3, 1851, the fiery educator and abolitionist...