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Paul Laurence Dunbar's Legacy of Language
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LIANE HANSEN
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
02-12-2006
Paul Laurence Dunbar's Legacy of Language
Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
LIANE HANSEN, host:
Last week marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Paul Laurence Dunbar. He was the first African-American poet to make his living through his writing. Dunbar's work influenced many black writers of the Harlem Renaissance and he was well known during his lifetime for the poetry he wrote in black dialect. Those poems have caused some discomfort to black authors over the years.
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