made sure Paul was educated. Dunbar attended the Tenth Street Elementary School and then went on to attend Central High School, where he edited the Dayton Tattler, an African-American newspaper ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experiences of Black Americans at the ...

In this volume of poems about half are in the negro dialect, and show Mr. Dunbar at his best. The delicious languor, and warmth and melody of the negro songs, their unexpected turns of humor and ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the Mask is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...