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A Ballad and a Riot: Brooks’ Shift in Style and Her Exploration of a Budding Black Autonomy
Of Many Strands

A Ballad and a Riot: Brooks’ Shift in Style and Her Exploration of a Budding Black Autonomy

Written by Lydia Burleson, Yale 21'                                                                               Edited by Jisoo Choi, Yale 22' In the time before and during the Civil Rights Movement, Gwendolyn Brooks used her poetry to explore the shifting concept of Black agency, specifically the freedom of choice and movement for Black individuals within a white-dominated
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