Gwendolyn Brooks. A powerful African American women who faced racial discrimination all her life became one of the greatest poets to live with just a pencil and notebook. She stayed true to herself and her identity as she changed the America one poem at a time. David and Keziah Brooks had their first born child, Gwendolyn Brooks, on July 7, 1917, She was born when racism and oppression was at its highest. Shortly after Gwendolyns birth, they relocated to Chicago Illinois, taking part in the Great Migration that took place in 1910-1970. During this time six million African Americans took a journey from the Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest and West. In Chicago, Gwendolyn’s two younger siblings, Raymond and Juliet, would later
