Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was an African American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though some of his writing used a Negro dialect, other writing does not use dialect. These more traditional poems…
One example of “the extraordinary resilience of black citizens, who individually and collectively found ways to endure, fight back and occasionally define their own destinies…”
Thomas Chatmon was born in 1919 and interviewed in 1994 at the…