Brooks, Gwendolyn (Elizabeth)

(born June 7, 1917, Topeka, Kan., U.S.—died Dec. 3, 2000, Chicago, Ill.) U.S. poet. Reared in the Chicago slums, Brooks published her first poem at age 13. With Annie Allen (1949), a loosely connected series of poems about growing up in Chicago, she became the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize. The Bean Eaters (1960) contains some of her best verse. Among her other books are In the Mecca (1968), the autobiographical Report from Part One (1972), Primer for Blacks (1980), Young Poets' Primer (1981), and Children Coming Home (1991).

Brooks, Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) (1917– ) poet, writer; born in Topeka, Kans. Based in Chicago, she graduated from Wilson Junior College there (1936) and was publicity director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Chicago (1930s). She taught at many institutions and succeeded Carl Sandburg as poet laureate of Illinois (1968). Her verse narrative Annie Allen (1949) won the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to an African-American woman (1950).

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Students who are part of Chicago's entrepreneur classes at schools such as the Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy are pursuing their passions with business plans and help from the city's business leaders.

Raising student achievement by The Education Innovator

She considers a theory of Black literate lives, the literacy activism of Gwendolyn Brooks, the making of revolutionary literacies, soldering in participatory literacy communities, and black teachers as literacy activists in urban public schools.

Black literate lives; historical and contemporary perspectives by Reference & Research Book News

Only two poets, Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, were entitled to schools in their names while still alive, and the US presidents whose names most commonly adorn street signs are Kennedy, Roosevelt and Washington, who died long before most of the honors were bestowed.

Yes we can: Schools, streets renamed for Barack Obama by AFP / AFP American Edition

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