The Phyllis Wheatley Young Women’s Christian Association building, built in 1929, provided the Black community with a space to meet, attend classes, and enjoy recreation safely in a segregated city.

Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic oppression and powerful politicians like Thomas Jefferson questioning her ...

Black women were no exception, and in 1895, the Phyllis Wheatley Club was founded in Nashville, TN. Named after the first African American poet to have her works published in the U.S, the club’s ...

It covers the first edition of Phillis Wheatley’s most renowned work — “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” a poetry anthology. This was the first published work of an enslaved person or ...

The Phyllis Wheatley Club of Colored Women, Buffalo’s first NACW affiliate was founded in 1899. The PWC began a long tradition of establishing and supporting self-help and advocacy ...

In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven years old, she wrote a letter to Reverend Samson Occum, a Mohegan Indian and an ordained Presbyterian minister. Despite the difference in their ages ...

Confused and not speaking the language, she was sold in 1761 to John Wheatley, a wealthy tailor to founding father John Hancock and other Boston notables. He named her after the ship she arrived on ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street now has a new Indiana State historical marker, commemorating the Indianapolis Phyllis ...

click image for close-up A rare portrait of Phillis Wheatley shows her facing forward, wearing an evening dress and jewelry. The portrait appeared in Revue des Colonies in Paris between 1834 and 1842.

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The Phyllis Wheatley Community Center, located in north Minneapolis, marked 100 years in October. But on Friday the center is hosting their centennial gala. RelatedPhyllis Wheatley center ...

The Young Artist Program at Phillis Wheatley is the place for them! In this 4-week intensive, your child will participate in master classes with local professionals, learn theatre basics and ...