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Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks was a poet born in Kansas but moved to Chicago as a part of the Great Migration which was to move over 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the Northeast Midwest and West. At the age of 13 she published her first poem in a local magazine. By the time she was 16 she had written over 75 poems. She would later connect with Langston Hughes who would support her work and encourage her to keep writing. She published her first book A Street in Bronzeville in 1945 the...

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks was a highly regarded, much-honored poet, with the distinction of being the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for Annie Allen.

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Gwendolyn Brooks ~ United States Laureate This dear lady's mother lived acrossed the street from me when I was a child living on Chicago's southside. She held an assembly program at my elementary school where she read us some of her poems. When I would see her going to visit her mother I was so starstruck to shy to say hello....someone who had actually wrote books was so awsome to me.

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Gwendolyn Brooks photograph from the Daily Sundial, April 12, 1972 :: CSUN University Archives

Image from the Daily Sundial, campus newspaper at San Fernando Valley State College (now CSUN). Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a Guggenheim Fellow, and American Poet Laureate. On April 12, 1972, Ms. Brooks participated in a reading of her work at the San Fernando Valley State campus. CSUN University Digital Archives.

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Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans | The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (1917-2000) ~ the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry ~ honored by USPS with a stamp!

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ILLINOIS l Gwendolyn Brooks once lived this Chicago house. She was the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer prize was born this day in 1917. #HERstory

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Final resting place of Gwendolyn Brooks: Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, IL. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet and teacher. She was the first black person (the term she preferred over African-American[1]) to win a Pulitzer prize when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 for her second collection, Annie Allen. source: wikipedia.com

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On of my all-time favorite poets; Gwendolyn Brooks.

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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)Poet, she was the first African American to win a Pulitzer prize for poetry

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Representation Matters

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks was a highly regarded, much-honored poet, with the distinction of being the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for Annie Allen.