Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home / Bethel A.M.E. Church

CTL-E-1401 · Organization · other · unspecified

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Black women's club founded 1896; established the Phyllis Wheatley Home in 1908 to house Black migrant women and girls arriving without relatives or resources. Held a citywide mass meeting at Bethel A.M.E. Church on January 29, 1911, exemplifying churches as the meeting infrastructure of Black women's settlement work.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from SCI-004; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-SCI-004:phyllis-wheatley-club; source research type(s): organization. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Abraham Carter Kimani Sr., 'Mothers of the City: The Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home, the Great Migration, and Communal Family in Black Chicago, 1910-1930,' UCLA M.A. thesis, 2012 (escholarship.org)
Kimani, UCLA M.A. thesis, 2012

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