Word: gwendolyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gwendolyn Brooks, L.H.D. We think of you primarily not as a woman, or a black, but as a poet...
...interesting. He's preacher, not a pastor or reverend, of some fundamentalist church up in Cabin Creek, and one of the leaders of a group that tried to remove English books from the Kanawha County schools a year ago. The textbooks included short stories by James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Gwendolyn Brooks, other radicals. One of the formative experiences of my life was seeing Avis Hill lead a group of women down a street in Charleston to the building that houses the school board, where they built a pyre of the godless books. They were singing "We Shall Overcome...
...Committee. Then the Rev. Marvin Horan of the Leewood Freewill Baptist Church took up the crusade, and opposition to the books spread among the county's strict fundamentalists. They took exception, among other things, to Sigmund Freud's Character and Anal Eroticism, selections by Pulitzer-prizewinning Poet Gwendolyn Brooks and Authors Dick Gregory and Eldridge Cleaver, and a profile of Poet Allen Ginsberg featuring a description of a prostitute, all of them for use as supplementary texts in high school English classes. Also attacked was a collection of myths that appeared to challenge the literal interpretation...
...first two issues, reprints of pieces by such authors as T.S. Eliot, Black Poet Gwendolyn Brooks and H. A. Rey (Curious George) outnumbered original contributions. But new material dominates the two most recent issues (November and December), in which the contributors include Novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer and the prolific children's writer Elizabeth Coatsworth. Assisted by such diverse characters as the Unhappy King of Gargantak and the Two-Toed Tree Toad, Cricket has already attracted more than 100,000 subscribers...
...Gwendolyn Gregory, special assistant to the director of the Civil Rights office, said she has had informal contact with the British trustees of the scholarship fund and she said she believes they are willing to consider a change in the sex requirement...