Gwendolyn Brooks at Wesley United Methodist Church, ca. 1989. (l to r): Dorothy Vickers-Shelley, Alicia Gilmore, Gwendolyn Brooks, Beaulah Latiff, and Dianne Pinderhughes.

Gwendolyn Brooks spoke in Champaign-Urbana as part of the annual Anne Locklin lecture series at Wesley United Methodist Church in the late 1980s.