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On June 7, 1917. Gwendolyn Brooks is born in Topeka, Kansas -
On June 7, 1917 Gwendolyn Brooks is born in Topeka, Kansas. She is the daughter of Keziah Wims(Teacher) and David Anderson Brooks.
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Sep 3, 1928. Gwendolyn Brooks begins submitting her poetry for publication -
Sep 3, 1928. Gwendolyn Brooks begins submitting her poetry for publication. Maud Martha (1953), which details its title character's life in short vignettes.
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May 5, 1930. Brooks publishes her first poem "Eventide" in the American Childhood magazine. -
May 5, 1930. Brooks publishes her first poem "Eventide" in the American Childhood magazine. She was 13 when her first published poem, “Eventide,” appeared in American Childhood.
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MAY 5, 1933 Brooks' Meets Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson. -
MAR 16, 1939 she got married to Marries Henry Lowington Blakely II and moves to Chicago's South Side. -
on FEB 14, 1945 Her first book of poetry, A Street in Bronzeville, is published. "No white poet of her quality is so undervalued, so unpardonably unread. She ought to be widely appreciated as one of our most remarkable woman poets..." -James M. Johnson of Ramparts (In response to A Street in Bronzeville. -
MAY 5, 1949 Gwendolyn Brooks made her second book of poetry, Annie Allen, is published. This won Poetry Magazine's Eunice Tietjens Prize. -
On MAY 5, 1949 Her second book of poetry, Annie Allen, is published. This won Poetry Magazine's Eunice Tietjens Prize. -
SEP 2, 1951 Brooks gives birth to a daughter, Nora Blakely -
Gwendolyn brooks passed away on Dec 3, 2000. She made a huge impact during the Harlem Renaissance by becoming a teacher and mentor to younger African American poets in Chicago. These young artists brought with them new perspectives on the issues of racial inequity and global anti-blackness.