Poet Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Living place: Topeka

Birthday: 7-6-1917

Population of US 1917: 103,268,000

Global rank: #20317

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Who is Poet Gwendolyn Brooks?
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for works like Annie Allen and We're Real. She won the US Poet Laureate title in 1985.
She became the Illinois Poet Laureate in 1968.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She published her first poem in a children's magazine when she was only thirteen years old.

Family life info

She was born in Topeka, Kansas, and she later moved to Chicago, Illinois. She had two children with her husband, Henry Lowington Blakely, Jr.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Gwendolyn Brooks?
She, like Langston Hughes, is a famous African-American poet.

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When was Poet Gwendolyn Brooks born?
Gwendolyn Brooks was born in 7-6-1917, death year is , at the age of 107.
Where is Poet Gwendolyn Brooks's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas- United States. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Gemini, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Snake. Gwendolyn Brooks's global rank is 20317 and whose rank is 22 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1917 is about 103,268,000 persons.
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Events in 1917 and 7-6

Events in US in the birth year of Gwendolyn Brooks

  • U.S. declares war with Germany (Apr. 6). Background: World War I
  • "I Want You." James Montgomery Flagg's poster, featuring Uncle Sam and based on a 1914 British poster, attracts thousands of U.S. recruits to WWI duty.
  • Between ten thousand and fifteen thousand blacks silently walk down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest racial discrimination and violence (July 28). Background: civil rights

Birthday Gwendolyn Brooks (7-6) in history

  • Day 7-6 year 1494: Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, a treaty dividing the "New World" between the two countries.
  • Day 7-6 year 1654: "Sun King" Louis XIV ascended the throne of France.
  • Day 7-6 year 1776: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing the Declaration of Independence.
  • Day 7-6 year 1892: Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
  • Day 7-6 year 1929: Vatican City became a sovereign state.
  • Day 7-6 year 1948: President Eduard Beneš of Czechoslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was completed.
  • Day 7-6 year 1967: Dorothy Parker, American short story writer, poet, and critic, died.
  • Day 7-6 year 2003: Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians.
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