“Gwendolyn was born on June 7, 1917 in Topeka Kansas, but she grew up in Chicago, Illinois as part of the Great Migration” with her brother Raymond Brooks and her parents Keziah wims and David Anderson Brooks.
~Brooks was a shy little girl
~She spent most of her childhood writing, because she wasn’t a social person and wasn’t very athletic like the others around her.
~”Gwendolyn was a American poet”
~Brooks went to “three high schools which was The Prestigious, Integrated Hyde park, and the all black Wendell Phillips Academy High school”.
~In 1939 “Brooks married Henry Lowington, Jr and had two children named Henry Lowington Blakely the 3rd and Nora Brooks Blakely”
~”Gwendolyn taught
~Brooks was a shy little girl
~She spent most of her childhood writing, because she wasn’t a social person and wasn’t very athletic like the others around her.
~”Gwendolyn was a American poet”
~Brooks went to “three high schools which was The Prestigious, Integrated Hyde park, and the all black Wendell Phillips Academy High school”.
~In 1939 “Brooks married Henry Lowington, Jr and had two children named Henry Lowington Blakely the 3rd and Nora Brooks Blakely”
~”Gwendolyn taught