A Street in Bronzeville

CTL-E-0279 · Work · book · 1945

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Gwendolyn Brooks's first poetry collection (1945), a portrait of everyday life in Chicago's Bronzeville.

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Gwendolyn Brooks — authored by
Gwendolyn Brooks's 1945 debut poetry collection.

Sources

Britannica — Gwendolyn Brooks
Penguin Random House — A Street in Bronzeville (primary source)

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Jacking up a car on the repair tracks at an Illinois Central Railroad yard, Chicago, Chicago, 1942Photo: Jack Delano, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Children at the table in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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