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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was an American poet. Born to freed slaves, he became one of the most prominent African-American poets of his time in the 1890s. [1] Dunbar, who was twenty-seven when he wrote "Sympathy", [2]: xxi had already published several poetry collections which had sold well. [1]
James Edwin Campbell (September 28, 1867 – January 26, 1896) was an American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist. Campbell was the first principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute (present-day West Virginia State University) from 1892 until 1894, and is considered by the university as its first president.
We Wear the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Politics of Representative Reality. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-1-61277-507-4. OCLC 794698858. Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1993). The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-1438-1. Revell, Peter (1979). Paul Laurence Dunbar. Boston ...
Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child.
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May 23—Last year, David Beard reported on the Dunbar School Foundation Stop program—a saga of accusations, denials and government review. We recently learned that, after roughly two years of ...
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Marc Harshman (born October 1, 1950) is a Poet Laureate for the state of West Virginia. He was appointed as West Virginia's Poet Laureate on May 18, 2012 by former governor Earl Ray Tomblin. Harshman is well-known for his numerous children's books and works in public poetry.