Jul 20, 2017
During the Civil Rights Movement, there were several forms of protest used. Gwendolyn Brooks chose to use the form that she knew best: poetry. Learn about Brooks, the future academic, Pulitzer Prize winning poet raised on the south side of Chicago in this week's episode of She the People.
{Correction} Link to the correct reading of "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks: https://youtu.be/oaVfLwZ6jes
Thanks to Judy Swann for this correction.
Presented by Camelia Bakes (cameliabakes.com)
Hosts: Heather Linder and Billy Puckett
Producer and Music Composition: Tim Corpus (timcorpus.com)
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