Answer:
The best answer should be: "African American experiences and struggles".
Explanation:
It is not possible to state that Gwendolyn Brooks' work was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance and/or the African American Civil Rights Movement because her works are part of both literary and sociocultural movements, as much as they formed and inspired both movements. People used her works for the sake of inspiring and educating, besides influencing others to participate in black citizenship. It is more coherent to state that "Gwendolyn Brooks' work was directly influenced by African American experiences and struggles", in general, for that was her main aim while writing poetry and prose, in order to express African American people's lives in America and to struggle for their own rights.
