| 21. | Members of the congregation have included Samuel Adams, William Dawes, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Sewall, and Phillis Wheatley.
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| 22. | The " Mercury " was the first paper to publish poetry by an African American woman, Phillis Wheatley.
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| 23. | The lives of slaves are brought to life through real diaries from the time, including the writings of poet Phillis Wheatley.
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| 24. | Mary McCoy ( b .-d . 1922 ) helped found the Phillis Wheatley Home for Aged Colored Men in 1898.
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| 25. | Phillis Wheatley broke barriers as the first American black woman poet to be published, opening the door for future black authors.
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| 26. | In her widowhood, she was active in Bridgeport's Phillis Wheatley branch of the Young Women's Christian Association.
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| 27. | The story, told in first-person narration, follows the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American poet.
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| 28. | Once students finished the eighth grade, they were bussed to Phillis Wheatley High School in Houston in order to finish their secondary education.
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| 29. | In 1940, she was selected to chair the Phillis Wheatley Monument Fund, to erect a monument at the Boston gravesite of Wheatley.
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| 30. | In 2010, " Book TV " received the Phillis Wheatley Award from the organizers of New York's Harlem Book Fair.
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