Dennis Brutus: Discovering History's Heroes

Jeter Publishing presents a middle grade series that celebrates men and women who altered the course of history but may not be as well-known as their counterparts. In this biography, meet South African poet and human rights activist Dennis Brutus.

Dennis Brutus was a poet and human rights activist whose works centered on his sufferings and those of his fellow blacks in South Africa.

For fourteen years, Dennis taught English and Afrikaans in South Africa. As the white minority government incr...