After graduating from Wilson college, "She briefly worked as a maid and as a secretary for a spiritual charlatan who managed a massive slum tenement known as the Mecca. Brooks later recalled both of these painfully degrading job experiences in her poetry" ("Brooks, Gwendolyn (Vol. 125)"). Having worked for a person who forced the horrible life experiences onto the black community. Gwendolyn Brooks could easily convey the degrading and infuriating experience, into her poetry. Later in her life, Brooks' became more involved in helping others gain their voice, "Gwendolyn did a poetry workshop for a teenage gang in Chicago called the Blackstone Rangers" (Andrea, "Gwendolyn Brooks: Impacting One reader at a time"). Once she spent time helping the Blackstone Rangers to express themselves in writing poetry. This experience inspired her to write a poem about the gang titled, "The Blackstone Rangers". It describes the Blackstone Rangers' lifestyle, and compares the members of the gang to influential civil rights
After graduating from Wilson college, "She briefly worked as a maid and as a secretary for a spiritual charlatan who managed a massive slum tenement known as the Mecca. Brooks later recalled both of these painfully degrading job experiences in her poetry" ("Brooks, Gwendolyn (Vol. 125)"). Having worked for a person who forced the horrible life experiences onto the black community. Gwendolyn Brooks could easily convey the degrading and infuriating experience, into her poetry. Later in her life, Brooks' became more involved in helping others gain their voice, "Gwendolyn did a poetry workshop for a teenage gang in Chicago called the Blackstone Rangers" (Andrea, "Gwendolyn Brooks: Impacting One reader at a time"). Once she spent time helping the Blackstone Rangers to express themselves in writing poetry. This experience inspired her to write a poem about the gang titled, "The Blackstone Rangers". It describes the Blackstone Rangers' lifestyle, and compares the members of the gang to influential civil rights