Phillis Wheatley Club

Phillis Wheatley Clubs worked on improving their neighborhoods and the lives of people in their communities.

[2] In New Orleans, the Phyllis Wheatley Club founded the only training hospital for black doctors and nurses in 1896.

[6][7] The first Phyllis Wheatley Home, located on Chicago's South Side, was purchased for $3,400 in 1906, and Jennie Lawrence was hired to oversee it.

[5] It opened in 1908, and served as a settlement house, providing accommodations to Black women during the Great Migration.

[5] However, its owner is hoping to restore the building and create a public exhibit space on Black women's history.

[17] In Buffalo, the Phyllis Wheatley Club there celebrated the 30th anniversary of the ending of slavery with a play which they sponsored.

[18] The club in Racine, Wisconsin in 1921 brought in Maud Cuney Hare and William H. Richardson to perform to show off black talent.

[19] The Charleston, South Carolina club hosted events featuring prominent individuals in the black community such as Marian Anderson, Mary McCleod Bethune, Countee Cullen, W. E. B.

[22][23] In Tampa Bay, the Phyllis Wheatley Club sponsored an annual "Defense Dance" which raised money by charging a fee at the door.

[32] Musette Brooks Gregory, a suffragist and civil rights advocate, served as one of the elected presidents of the Newark Club.

[33] In Cleveland, Jane Edna Hunter founded a group in 1911 that was later renamed the Phillis Wheatley Association.

[37] The Fort Scott, Kansas club was started in 1919 to "study current topics, civics and economics.