Exploring the Life and Legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872-1906)
Dunbar
Project programming may address one or more of the following themes:
- The
Vernacular Tradition/Vernacular Poetry Performance
- Recovering
a Regional Heritage of Writers
- Resistance
to Jim Crow and the North
- Literary
Patron
age (for Dunbar and others) During Dunbar’s Period
- African-American Lyric Poetry
- Lynching
in the North
- Integration and Education
- Sites of
African-American Heritage
- Race
Relationships on the Ohio River
- Slavery
and the African-American Memory
- History of
American Music
- Slavery’s
Influence on Literature
- Literature of the Underground
Railroad
-
Slavery
and Poetry/Fiction
- Influence of Slavery on American
Life
- The
Emergence of Black Intellectual Networks Before and After the Turn of the
20th Century
- Locating
Obscure African-American Resources
- Recovering
Period Audiences for Black Letters and Journalism
- Countering
Racism
- Black
Journalism (in the nation and the region): Columbus Dispatch, Philadelphia Times, Denver
Post, Chicago Tribune, New York Times
- Multi-racial Friendships (Dunbar/Wright
brothers, Dayton Central High)
- Birth of
Twentieth-Century American Letters