Funded by the Save America’s Treasures grant program through the National Park Service, this grant ensured long-term access to the Gwendolyn Brooks Papers held within the Library’s Rare Books and Manuscript Library (RBML). The collection, which was compiled by Brooks herself as well as her daughter, Nora Brooks Blakely, was acquired by the RBML in 2013 as more than 500 boxes filled with manuscripts, drafts, revisions, correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, recordings, broadsides, photographs, awards, artifacts, notebooks full of personal notes and lists, and several homemade chapbooks of handwritten early poetry.