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    Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American...
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    Portrait of Phillis Wheatley is a lost painting used as the frontispiece for poet Phillis Wheatley's poetry collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious...
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    The Phillis Wheatley Clubs (also Phyllis Wheatley Club) are women's clubs created by African Americans starting in the late 1800s. The first club was...
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    Phillis Wheatley High School is a secondary school located at 4801 Providence Street in Houston, Texas, United States with a ZIP code of 77020. Wheatley...
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    Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England (published 1 September...
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    and a novel. Her 2020 collection The Age of Phillis reexamines the life of American poet Phillis Wheatley, based on years of archival research; it was...
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    Phillis Wheatley Waters (April 15, 1898 – December 30, 1973) was an American educator and college basketball player. She is thought to be the first African-American...
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    was a finalist for the 2015 Balcones Poetry Prize and for the 2016 Phillis Wheatley Book Award (Poetry category). In 2020's Seeing the Body, Griffiths...
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    Obour Tanner (category Phillis Wheatley)
    correspondent of poet Phillis Wheatley, and the only correspondent of Wheatley's that was of African descent. Tanner acted as an agent for Wheatley in Newport and...
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  • Phillis Wheatley Elementary School is a school in New Orleans. The original school building was designed by the architect Charles Colbert in 1954 as a...
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    The YWCA, Phillis Wheatley Branch in St. Louis, Missouri is a building dating from 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984...
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    JSTOR 364975. "Enclosure: Poem by Phillis Wheatley, 26 October 1775". Retrieved December 7, 2023. Selections from Phillis Wheatley Poems and Letters Archived...
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    spelled Phillis, it was used by English poets John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester and Matthew Prior. African-born American poet Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)...
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  • Johnson, Troy. "Phillis Wheatley Book Awards 2013". African American Literature Book Club. Troy Johnson. Retrieved February 7, 2015. "Wheatley Book Awards...
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  • community provided maintenance. The school was renamed in honor of Phillis Wheatley, who was kidnapped in Africa as a child and enslaved in Boston; she...
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    "Mister Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley". It was the basis of his later book The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her...
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  • in a play called A Night of Stars and Dreams by Dwight Woods at the Phillis Wheatley Repertory Theater of Greenville, South Carolina. It was then that Young...
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    A Collection of Literary Biographies, Supplement XX, Mary Antin to Phillis Wheatley. Ed. Jay Parini. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons p131-146. Bouris...
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  • former Wheatley High School (Pirates) when local school districts merged in the late 1980s Brackenridge High School, San Antonio, Texas, known as Phillis Wheatley...
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  • Phillis Levin (born 1954), American poet Phillis Meti (born 1987), New Zealand golfer Phillis Nolan (1946–2022), Irish lawn bowler Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)...
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    constructed as a neighborhood for African-Americans, the area was named for Phillis Wheatley, an African-American poet from the 18th century, who was the first...
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    valley, thereby becoming one of the first black women to live in Utah. Phillis Wheatley was one of the first black Christian women to be recognized in the...
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  • descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African American...
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    Moorhead is known through the contemporary African-American poet Phillis Wheatley's poem, dedicated "To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works"...
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  • Bluff, Missouri, United States Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States The Wheatley School, a public high school in...
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  • Working Girls Association in Cleveland, Ohio, which later became the Phillis Wheatley Association of Cleveland. Jane Edna Hunter's parents were wage earners...
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    Literature 2017 — OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Poetry 2017 — Phillis Wheatley Book Award, Poetry 2024 — National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography...
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    were some notable exceptions; perhaps the most famous of these was Phillis Wheatley, whose poetry won admiration on both sides of the Atlantic. The end...
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    adjust my daily Night That it will come again. In "On Imagination" by Phillis Wheatley: From Tithon's bed now might Aurora rise, Her cheeks all glowing with...
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  • the publication of the first book of African American literature, Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral Senchyne co-curated...
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