The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Nora Brooks Blakely

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Nora Brooks Blakely

5/1/2018

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2018.089

Artistic director and playwright Nora Brooks Blakely (1951 - ) Blakely was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 5/1/2018, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 8; Total Run Time: 03h 54m 42s

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Blakely, Nora Brooks.

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Artistic director and playwright Nora Brooks Blakely was born on September 8, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois to Henry Lowington Blakely, Jr. and Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Blakely graduated from Chicago's Hirsch High School in 1969, and received her B.A. degree in education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1972. She then earned her M.A. degree in interdisciplinary arts from Loyola University.Blakely taught at Copernicus ...