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Exhibit of Phillis Wheatley's poems and influence at Wisconsin:
“They say she is forgotten, forgotten by whom?” [Dr. Brigitte] Fielder said. “Black writers were marginalized and ignored by many white institutions, but that does not mean they were not relevant or forgotten.”
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‘250 Years of Phillis Wheatley’: Where African-American literary history began
Literature exhibit celebrates work of monumental Black writer