Box 1

Scope and Contents note

The history explains the origins of the Club. Guests mentioned include Edwin A. Harleston, W.E.B. DuBois, Edmundt T. Jenkins, Ludmilla Bechtold, with reference to Marian Anderson concerts and a reading by Langston Hughes.

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...

Scope and Contents note

Minutes include infromation regarding books read and discussed, and guest lecturers.

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...

Scope and Contents note

Documents clubs political activities.

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...