Frederick Douglass Center

CTL-E-1242 · Institution · other · 1900s, 1910s, 1920s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Interracial settlement founded 1904 at 3032 Wabash by Celia Parker Woolley with Ida B. Wells; housed the Frederick Douglass Woman's Club and supported the Phyllis Wheatley Home with material donations.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from INST-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-INST-001:INST-034; source research type(s): settlement house.

Sources

Harvard Art Museums, settlement report object c. 1904. https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/313257 (primary source)
Chicago Defender clipping (1915-04-03), via bahai-library.com newspaper clippings archive. (primary source)
Wikipedia, 'Frederick Douglass Woman's Club.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass_Woman%27s_Club
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Parker_Woolley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass_Woman%27s_Club
https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/313257
https://escholarship.org/content/qt9883q3qd/qt9883q3qd_noSplash_579fed2b4a79a796ef8525f22605f9c1.pdf
harvardartmuseums.org (object 313257, c. 1904); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass_Woman's_Club (primary source)
en.wikipedia.org; Chicago Defender clipping (1915-04-03)
escholarship.org (Phyllis Wheatley Home paper, 2016)

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