Growing up, Brooks had attended three different high schools; Hyde Park High School; the all-black Wendell Phillips Academy High School; and the integrated Englewood High School. It was at these high schools were Brooks would experience hate due to her race, which helped her understand how different people thought, to which the knowledge would be later used in her stories. Brooks would begin her job as a writer after she finished studying at Wilson Junior College, in 1936. Within the early years of the 1960s, Brooks after establishing herself as a great writer, began to be a teacher for creative writing at the University of Wisconsin, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago State University, Columbia University and the Columbia College in …show more content…
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed explores the story of Rudolph Reed and his family, that move to the much anticipated home that they always wanted. Many ideals are talked about within the poems such as how irrational it is when the source of hate is someone's race. The poem also talks about how people would cause harm and expect no repercussion for they thought nothing wrong of their actions. In addition to, the work of Brooks had effectively used terminology to symbolize and define