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Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first Black poet read nationally
1872
Dayton, Ohio
Chris Light (talk) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The son of formerly enslaved parents and the first Black American poet to earn a national readership, writing in both standard English and dialect and uneasy about which one audiences wanted. He was Orville Wright's high school classmate, and they printed a newspaper together.
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