BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, 7th June, 1917, a prominent poet, who is also famous for winning the Pulitzer Prize, Elizabeth Brooks Gwendolyn was born, in Topeka, Kansas. When she was just six weeks old, Brooks’ father and the entire family relocated to Chicago following the American Great Migration. To her family members and […]
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