Box 4

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Guest book signed by guests attending the Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club's 85th anniversary celebration.

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Hand books made by the Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club to record club officers, the club directory, and program calendar for the year. The hand books cover the following program years: 1975-1976, 1977-1979, 1979-1980, 1981-1982, 1983-1984, 1985-1986, and 1987-1989.

Scope and Contents Part 1 of a collection of materials arranged by Emily L. Moore, the club Historian, for the centennial anniversary of the Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club. Materials include an essay co-authored by Moore and Cynthia McCottry-Smith titled "The Blessings of a Century 1916-2016" discussing the history of the club, the speech given by Moore at the opening of the One Hundred Years of Blessings exhibit displayed at the Avery Research Center, correspondence with the offices of President...

Scope and Contents Part 2 of a collection of materials arranged by Emily L. Moore, the club Historian, for the centennial anniversary of the Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club. Materials include the club's Women's History Month Literary Awards Program, the 2015 Installation of Officers meeting agenda and script, a CD-R containing an oral history with Emily Moore and Cynthia McCottry-Smith done with StoryCorps for the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, materials from the Club's 2015...

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Materials include a speech given by Mrs. McCottry-Smith at the club's 90th Anniversary Celebration, a press release announcing her election as the club's President in 2008, an embroidered bookmark, and an undated biographical sketch.

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Materials include a Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club sticker for materials placed in the club's library.

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The first edition of the Phillis Wheatley Gazette written by club member Lori Reed. The Gazette covers the activities of club members over the summer.

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Remarks from an unknown speaker titled "Music in My Life" discussing growing up with music and how their appreciation grew while in college.

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Materials include a reproduction of a Portrait of Phillis Wheatley and a clipping about Wheatley's poem, "Ocean", selling at auction.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Minutes, literary productions, correspondence, printed materials, photographs, financial records, and scrapbooks (1907-2017) document the history of the Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club. The records are arranged in three series. The first series, Minutes and History, contains a history of the club produced by the club's founder Jeannette Cox (1934), as well as four bound volumes of the club's minute books (1916-1984). The minutes detail authors read and discussed by the...