Georgia Douglas Johnson Research Paper

"I wanted to be the first to view a country on which the eyes of a white man had never gazed and to follow the course of rivers that run through a new land."

There, she started to write at the age of seven and published her first poem at 13. After she completed school, Gwendolyn Brooks found herself working for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and continued to write about the struggles of African Americans in her community. During Gwendolyn Brooks’s career she expanded the topic of her writings. Between 1940-1960’s, her writings were about the oppression of blacks and women of all colors in her community, and she poetically criticized the shocking prejudice that African Americans had for one another. However, during 1960’s she developed a new attitude, due to her growing political awareness. She began to expand her poetry from the day-to-day life of the African Americans in her community, to writing about the wider world and the racial struggles of African American people everywhere. She then brought back all of her accomplishments to her community by reading her poems to children at various venues. By the end of her life, she had inspired thousands of young

     Gwendolyn Brooks is the female poet who has been most responsive to changes in the black community, particularly in the community’s vision of itself. The first African American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize; she was considered one of America’s most distinguished poets well before the age of fifty. Known for her technical artistry, she has succeeded in forms as disparate as Italian terza rima and the blues. She has been praised for her wisdom and insight into the African Experience in America. Her works reflect both the paradises and the hells of the black people of the world. Her writing is objective, but her characters speak for themselves. Although the

Alice Malsenior Walker, an African American born into poverty, came into this world on February 9, 1944 in Eatonon, Georgia. She was the youngest child of eight children born to Willie Lee and Minnie Tallulah Walkers. Both of her parents were sharecroppers as well as expert story tellers. Things were not easy for the Walkers and Alice often witnessed her mother’s frustration of having the burden to take care of eight children with little means. Even though children of share croppers were usually made to work the fields, Alice’s mother made sure that her kids received an education. Alice was brilliant at writing poetry.

While reading literature, we manage to forget that they have true roots to what is being written and what they actually represent. When looking at the similarities of how literature is represented it obvious to see that there are certain socially constructed groups presented. Although these socially constructed groups do vary throughout literature, they still tend to be very similar. In Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use,” Lorraine Hansberry play “A Raisin in the Sun,” and Langston Hughes’s poems “Harlem” and “Theme for English B” they evaluate the social construction of African Americans. What makes these authors so alike is the similarities that they share; being that they were all born in the early 1900’s, are all of African American ethnicity, and acknowledge the social construct of African Americans in these works. Looking at each of these works of literature they represent the struggles that African Americans faced when trying to be seen as equal, by allowing these works to be shown in different insights towards the battles faced in their movement towards being seen as equal.

Born in Jacksonville ,Florida,1871,James Weldon Johnson grew up in a mainly cultured and economically secure surroundings.His father was a resort hotel headwaiter,and his mother,a school teacher ,Johnson's mother allowed him to stimulate his early interest in reading,drawing,and music,he graduated at Atlanta University where he took his bachelor's degree in 1894.Johnson first became aware of the racial problems that were going on in the United States during college as race questions were going around campus,Johnson's teaching experience with the black school children wanted him to improve the lives of his people.In 1895 he became an active local spokesman on black social and political issues,and founded the Daily American the newspaper became

On August 27, 1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson was born to Sam and Rebekah Johnson.; he was the first of their five children. He was born near the central Texas community of Johnson City, which was named for some of his relatives. His family included some of the earliest settlers of the Lone Star State. They were cattlemen, cotton farmers, and soldiers for the Confederacy. Lyndon’s father, Sam Johnson, had won the election to the Texas legislature and he served five terms before he switched careers and became a farmer. He had a very strong relationship with his mother, Rebekah Johnson.

Countless of things happen each and every day, but some of them, nobody can see coming. On January 29th, 1933 many people went to sleep thinking that the next day would be just another average day, but it turned out to be the start of one of the most horrific events in world history. January 30th, 1933 President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany, which was the start of this event. This was the start of the Holocaust, and this is the story of a survivor, Georgia Gabor.

Phillis Wheatley was the first, African-American poet and published, women that wrote poems. She was born in Africa and then sold as a slave in North America. In most of her poems she wrote about the difficulties as a slave. One of her poems, “On being Brought

To have strength, you must have faith and some type of motivation. Or in Georgia’s situation, she had the will to live. Born in Budapest, only fourteen, and born into a prominent family was Georgia Gabor when the catastrophe Holocaust began. With strength and determination, she successfully escaped the Nazis three times and away from the horror.

Gwendolyn Brooks is the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize. She has also received a lot of awards and fellowships throughout her life. Born in 1917, she started her writing career in poetry at an early age, publishing her first poem in 1930. 1967 was a turning point in her career as it was in this year that she attended the Fisk University Second Black Writers' Conference. In this conference, she has decided to involve herself in the Black Arts Movement. While awareness of social issues and elements of protest is found generally in all her works, some of her critics found in her work an angrier tone after joining the movement.

Family Roots and Marilyn Nelson Waniek Growing up a creative black girl made Marilyn Nelson Waniek into a powerful writer. As a black woman writing about and for black people of her time, Waniek was a pioneer for racially novel expression. She delves into the sometimes uncomfortable and powerful topics of racism, classism, and death. However, her poetry is not merely confined to those few topics.

It's Grammy nominations time and it's that time of the year when all arms are up in rage when your favorite artist gets snubbed because of the lack of love. This year's biggest Grammy snubs include Carly Rae Jepsen, A$AP Rocky, Blur, Elle King, Sleater-Kinney and Trap Queen.

Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. She started writing poetry at the age of seven and had her first poem published when she was just thirteen years old. By the time Brooks turned sixteen she had seventy-nine published poems, most of which focused on the lives of African-American’s and their struggle with racism and poverty. Throughout her carrier Brooks was granted numerous awards and was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. On top of her awards, Brooks was granted forty-nine honorary degrees and over seventy-five honorary doctorates from colleges and universities all over the world. Sadly, Brooks died on December 3, 2000, just one week after being diagnosed with cancer, and is buried at the Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island, Illinois. She has had a cultural center, three middle schools, an elementary school, a college, and a library named after her, and in 2002 was named one of the 100 Greatest African-Americans (Yemisi).

Pulitzer prize novelist Alice Walker is best know for her stories about the life of African American women, their struggle with society for survival, racial, sexual and economical equality and spiritual wholeness. She writes through her personal experiences. Most critics consider her works as feminist, but Walker describes herself as a „womanist“, showing appreciatiation of women and their abilities no matter what the colour of their skin is.