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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...

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...

The Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House in Minneapolis, Minnesota was founded in 1924 by the Council on Social Agencies (CSA) and the Women's Cooperative...

Phyllis Wheatley High School, previously Apopka Colored School was a school for Black children in Apopka, Florida prior to desegregation of the public...

The Phyllis Wheatley YWCA is a Young Women's Christian Association building in Washington, D.C., that was designed by architects Shroeder & Parish and...

childhood, where she began studying piano at the age of nine, at the Phyllis Wheatley School of Music. She began acting at the Friendly Inn Settlement and...

also launched its Booker T. Washington University from the UNIA-run Phyllis Wheatley Hotel on West 136th Street. He also finally succeeded in securing a...

Phyllis or Phillis is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning foliage. Phyllis is a minor figure in Greek mythology who killed herself in despair...

Troy. "Phillis Wheatley Book Awards 2013". African American Literature Book Club. Troy Johnson. Retrieved February 7, 2015. "Wheatley Book Awards. Harlem...

educator. Jacob Carruthers was born in Texas and attended school at Phyllis Wheatley High School in Houston, TX, before going to Samuel Huston College,...

306–322. "Phyllis Wheatley – An African Genius". Star of the West. 19 (7): 221–223. October 1928. Retrieved December 24, 2013. (see Phyllis Wheatley.) A Colored...

Bruce Elementary School, E.O. Smith Junior High School, and all-black Phyllis Wheatley High School. After graduating high school, Moore went to Dillard University...

social worker. She is best known as the first head resident of the Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Brown was born in Charlotte...

and owner of Radio One Jane Edna Hunter Honorary nurse who founded Phyllis Wheatley Association & House in Cleveland Addie Waites Hunton Honorary a founder...

35th Street, Chicago. Emanuel served on the board of directors of the Phyllis Wheatley Club, an organization tasked with helping improve the lot of African-American...

Weekly Journal. Contributors included: Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Phyllis Wheatley. Publishers, and men acting on their behalf, included: (dates are approximate)...

facile sensuality that has dogged Negro expression since the days of Phyllis Wheatley... Her characters eat and laugh and cry and work and kill; they swing...

own. The ship pictured was Orion, which in the brochure was renamed Phyllis Wheatley. The BSL was trying to buy the ship at the time, but did not own her...

Black municipal court judge in Washington, D.C. She was named after Phyllis Wheatley, the first African-American author of a book of poetry. The family...

100th Anniversary of Historic Phyllis Wheatley Branch". YWCA. Retrieved November 22, 2013. Stiritz, Mary M. (1983). "Phyllis Wheatly Branch YWCA" (PDF)....