Gwendolyn Brooks, renowned poet, was the author of many memorable works centered on themes and issues from the Civil Rights Movement.

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Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in the town of Topeka, Kan., but her family moved to the South Side of Chicago when she was young. According to Modern American Poetry, Gwendolyn had a very close relationship with her parents: her father David was a janitor, and her mother Keziah was a schoolteacher. They had higher aspirations for their daughter and always supported her literary inclination.

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