Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000
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found: A street in Bronzeville, 1945.
found: On Gwendolyn Brooks, 1996:CIP pref. (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks)
found: Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha, 2002:CIP galley (d. Dec. 3, 2000)
found: In Montgomery, and other poems, 2003:CIP galley (b. June 7, 1917)
found: Information from 678 converted Dec. 17, 2014(poet)
found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Brooks, Gwendolyn, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks; poet and novelist; born 07 June 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, United States; associate's degree from Wilson Junior College; active in the Youth Council of the NAACP; taught at Chicago's Columbia College (1963); throughout the 1960s and 1970s she would go on to teach also at Elmhurst College, Northeastern Illinois University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, among other schools; in 1976 became the first black woman elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters; poetry consultant to the Library of Congress (1985); died 03 December 2000 in Chicago, Illinois, United States)
found: Wikipedia, viewed January 7, 2016entry for Gwendolyn Brooks ([Gwendolyn Brooks] was the first child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah (Wims) Brooks)
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1980-08-04: new
2023-05-08: revised
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