A fact from Normal School for Colored Girls appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 January 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did the school ever start admitting men? The name change to "Institution for the Education of Colored Youth" suggests it might have. —Angr 06:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That's a good question to which I have an intuitive rather than a definintive answer. The school through its various incarnations kept being a "teacher's school". I sense that they were mostly training women to teach primary school rather than training men or preparing people to teach on a secondary school level or higher. I bet it was a women's school until the 1929 "Teacher's College" merged with U of DC in 1976. Do you get the same "vibe?" I'll look around on the www a bit and see if I can find some fact to back up my guesswork. House of Scandal 06:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The standard rule on Wikipedia is that we use the most recent name for an institution for an the article name. Since this particular institution ceased to be its own entity with its merger, the most recent name would be Miner Teachers College. However, someone has set that page to redirect to Normal School for Colored Girls, which is the opposite of what should be happening. Can someone who's better with these things please reverse that? Thank you! Beginning (talk) 16:53, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I just edited the article to reflect "Miner Normal School", which is the NRHP program name for the place, as an alternate, bolded, name in the lead. Other alternative names can be stated in bold similarly in a "known also as ___, ____, or ___" phrase in the intro, and the whole NRHP phrase which i put into the intro can be removed from there (in which case please link the later NRHP mention in the text). But the NRHP name should be retained in the NRHP infobox for the article. All alternative names used in that way should redirect to this article. I don't know which is the primary, most suitable name for the article. It's not necessarily the most recent name. Like, if someone bought the Empire State Building, it could be noted in its article that it is now officially named by its new owner as "D. Trump Renovation Project of 2009" or whatever, but the world-wide commonly known name for the place should be retained as the article title. doncram (talk) 22:00, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, this article is really pretty good already. Perhaps it could be developed a bit more and be put up for wp:PR and/or as a wp:GAC. A very good source to develop the article would be the NRHP inventory/nomination document for the site, which was probably prepared in 1990 or 1991. It would be available, for free, upon request to nr_reference (at) nps.gov. doncram (talk) 22:00, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I finally found a picture of Myrtilla. She's a hard one to locate. Anyway, I'll gather some possible sources and post them here. Two of the reference links currently in the article don't appear to be working. APKis ready for Spring 01:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
