(Family lore held that her paternal grandfather had escaped slavery to join Union forces during the American Civil War.) When Brooks was six weeks old, her family moved to Chicago, Illinois during the Great Migration; from then on, Chicago was her hometown. She went by the nickname "Gwen...
Founded in 1998 as South Side College Prep, Brooks was renamed in 2001 to honor the Chicago Poet Laureate, Gwendolyn Brooks. Brooks offers a wide variety of Honors-level and Advanced Placement (AP) classes. Brooks offers AP classes in Language & Composition, Literature & Composition, ...
GwendolynElizabethBrookswasbornonJune7,1917,inTopeka,Kansas,anddiedonDecember3,2000inChicago,IL.ShewasthefirstchildofDavidAndersonBrooksandKeziah(Wims)Brooks.Hermotherwasaschoolteacherandchosethatfieldofworkbecauseshecouldnotaffordtoattendmedicalschool.WhenBrookswassixweeksold,herfamilymovedtoChicago,Illinoisduring...
GwendolynElizabethBrookswasbornonJune7,1917,inTopeka,Kansas,anddiedonDecember3,2000inChicago,IL.ShewasthefirstchildofDavidAndersonBrooksandKeziah(Wims)Brooks.Hermotherwasaschoolteacherandchosethatfieldofworkbecauseshecouldnotaffordtoattendmedicalschool.WhenBrookswassixweeksold,herfamilymovedtoChicago,Illinoisduring...