Gwendolyn Brooks papers, 1917-2000 (bulk 1950-1989).

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Gwendolyn Brooks papers, 1917-2000 (bulk 1950-1989).

1917-2000

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The Gwendolyn Brooks Papers, 1917-2000 (bulk 1950-1989), document her personal life and career as a distinguished poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Poet Laureate of Illinois. The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, flyers, announcements, scrapbooks, family papers, clippings, writings by others, and miscellaneous materials.

1 box, 15 cartons, 3 oversize boxes (23.75 linear ft.)

eng, Latn

Bancroft Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8291617

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City Colleges of Chicago

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Brooks, Keziah C.

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

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 ...

Blakely, Henry

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Online Archive of California

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