[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 393 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 393

    Commemorating the life of Gwendolyn Brooks of Chicago, Illinois.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           December 15 (legislative day, September 22), 2000

  Mr. Durbin (for himself and Mr. Fitzgerald) submitted the following 
             resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Commemorating the life of Gwendolyn Brooks of Chicago, Illinois.

Whereas Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 7, 1917, and moved 
        one month thereafter to the South Side of Chicago;
Whereas Gwendolyn Brooks was educated in the Chicago public school system, 
        graduating from Englewood High School in 1934;
Whereas Gwendolyn Brooks was the author of over twenty works of poetry spanning 
        46 years;
Whereas Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950 became the first African-American woman to win 
        the Pulitzer Prize for poetry with her publication, Annie Allen;
Whereas Gwendolyn Brooks was showered with numerous other accolades as a poet 
        and artist, including a lifetime achievement award from the National 
        Endowment for the Arts;
Whereas Gwendolyn Brooks has been poet laureate of Illinois since 1968, 
        succeeding the late Carl Sandburg;
Whereas Gwendolyn Brooks leveraged her prestige as Illinois poet laureate to 
        inspire young writers, establishing the Illinois Poet Laureate Awards in 
        1969 to encourage elementary and high school students to write; and
Whereas Gwendolyn Brooks taught future poets and writers at the University of 
        Wisconsin-Madison, the City College of New York, Columbia College of 
        Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, Elmhurst College, and Chicago 
        State University: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
          (1) commemorates the life of Gwendolyn Brooks and celebrates 
        the accomplishments she made not just to the State of Illinois, 
        but to the entire United States of America as a poet and 
        artist; and
          (2) extends its deepest sympathies to her daughter Nora and 
        son Henry.
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