| 31. | Phillis Wheatley was the first published black female poet, and she was converted to Christianity as a child after she was brought to America.
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| 32. | Other subjects included Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, and Booker T . Washington; as well as Gamal Abdul Nasser, and Julius Nyerere.
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| 33. | It was about yet another immigrant artist ( an immigrant by force, not choice ), the 18th-century slave and poet Phillis Wheatley.
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| 34. | The Phillis Wheatley Home was opened in 1911 with 23 rooms; Hunter worked with white leaders to expand the size and service of the facility.
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| 35. | In 1912, the Phillis Wheatley Home became the Phillis Wheatley Association of Cleveland, named in honor of the African-American poet Phillis Wheatley.
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| 36. | In 1912, the Phillis Wheatley Home became the Phillis Wheatley Association of Cleveland, named in honor of the African-American poet Phillis Wheatley.
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| 37. | In 1912, the Phillis Wheatley Home became the Phillis Wheatley Association of Cleveland, named in honor of the African-American poet Phillis Wheatley.
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| 38. | Phillis Wheatley was an avid student of the Bible and especially admired the works of Alexander Pope ( 1688 1744 ), the British neoclassical writer.
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| 39. | In the Schomburg show are freedmen's readers, including one with a picture of Phillis Wheatley, believed to be the first published black poet.
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| 40. | Strongly influenced by her studies of the works of Alexander Pope, John Milton, Homer, Horace and Virgil, Phillis Wheatley began to write poetry.
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