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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)

Sources:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/05/29/530081834/remembering-the-great-poet-gwendolyn-brooks-at-100

https://www.illinois.gov/poetlaureate/Pages/brooks.aspx