Gwendolyn Brooks’ apartment was dark on May 1, 1950. The brilliant, award-winning black poet, who wrote about life on Chicago’s South Side, had not paid her electric bill.
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Gwendolyn Brooks’ apartment was dark on May 1, 1950. The brilliant, award-winning black poet, who wrote about life on Chicago’s South Side, had not paid her electric bill.