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The murder of Emmet Till in Gwendolyn Brooks' Lines
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... THE MURDER OF EMMET TILL IN GWENDOLYN BROOKS' LINES Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- ) has a great place in the black movement, being the speaker of her people through her poems, in their struggle to acquire equal rights with the whites. In addition to her many awards, fellowships and honorary degrees such as, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellowship of American Academy of Arts and Letters and Eunice Tietjens Prize of the Poetry magazine, Gwendolyn Brooks has been the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize (1950). Having attended both white and black schools, she has been concerned with the issue of segregation and discrimination in her poems. Her poetry is "marked by some unforgettable characters who are drawn from the underclass of the nation's black neighborhoods."1 An important theme that she uses in two of her poems is the murder of Emmet Till, a fourteen year old boy whose
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