Gwendolyn Brooks photograph collection [graphic]. ca. 1910-ca. 1982.

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Gwendolyn Brooks photograph collection [graphic]. ca. 1910-ca. 1982.

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Includes portraits and snapshots of Brooks; her parents Keziah Wims Brooks and David Anderson Brooks; her husband Henry Blakely and his family; and her children Henry Blakely Jr. and Nora Blakely. Also contains snapshots of her family and friends in Chicago as well as of contemporary African American poets, including Dudley Randall, Woodie King Jr. and Don L. Lee (later known as Haki R. Madhubuti). Henry Blakely Jr's baby shoes are also included (in OBJ box).

1 box (ca. 270 photographic prints), 3 oversize folders (3 photographic prints, 1 painting and 4 drawings), 1 object box (1 pair baby shoes) and 43 negatives.

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David Anderson Brooks

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Madhubuti, Haki R., 1942-

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Poet, essayist, and entrepreneur Haki Madhubuti embodies the true spirit of a renaissance man as he moves seamlessly through the worlds of literature, business and education. Born in Detroit, Michigan and moving to Chicago after his mother's death, Madhubuti would sow the seeds that later led to his success. After graduation from high school, Madhubuti (known then as Don Lee) was drafted into military service, where he used books as his escape. After his tour of duty, he returned to Chicago and ...

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000

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African American poet and novelist, who was an important figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. From the description of Of Robert Frost / Gwendolyn Brooks. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79334638 Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 17, 1917 and moved shortly after her birth to Chicago's South Side, where she lived until her death. She authored more than twenty books of poetry, beginning with A Street in Bronzeville (1945), follow...

King, Woodie

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Blakely, Nora

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Brooks, Keziah Wims

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Blakely, Henry

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Randall, Dudley, 1914-2000

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Randall (1914-2000) created the Broadside Press in 1965 in Detroit (Mich.). He ran the press out of his home on limited funds, managing to publish the major African-American poetry of the period. Randall supported himself as a librarian at the University of Detroit. He put all profits back into the press. In 1978, Black Enterprise magazine called Randall "The father of the black poetry movement." He sold the press in 1985. Randall died in Aug. 2000. The Clarke Historical Library has a large coll...