Paul Laurence Dunbar Jr.

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Poet
Novelist
Playwright
gptkbp:associatedAct gptkb:The_Dunbar_Literary_Society
gptkbp:awards Honorary_degree_from_the_University_of_Toledo
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Dayton,_Ohio
gptkbp:born June 27, 1872
gptkbp:contribution First_African_American_to_gain_national_recognition_as_a_poet
Influenced_the_Harlem_Renaissance
gptkbp:died February 9, 1906
gptkbp:education gptkb:Central_High_School_(Dayton,_Ohio)
gptkbp:famousFor Exploring themes of race and identity
Writing in dialect
Pioneering_African_American_poet
gptkbp:genre gptkb:African_American_literature
gptkbp:hasFriend gptkb:Orville_Wright
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Paul Laurence Dunbar Jr.
gptkbp:influence gptkb:Modern_African_American_literature
Poets_of_the_Harlem_Renaissance
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Langston_Hughes
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Frederick_Douglass
gptkbp:inspiration gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
Contemporary_African_American_writers
gptkbp:language gptkb:African_American_Vernacular_English
English
gptkbp:legacy gptkb:Dunbar_Literary_Society
Dunbar_High_School_in_Washington,_D.C.
Dunbar_House_in_Dayton,_Ohio
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:A_Negro_Love_Song
gptkb:When_Malindy_Sings
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Sympathy
The Old Folks at Home
The Haunted Oak
The Coming of John
The Little Brown Baby
The_Party
An_Ante-Bellum_Sermon
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:The_Sport_of_the_Gods
Lyrics of a Lowly Life
Majors and Minors
We Wear the Mask
gptkbp:occupation Writer
gptkbp:parent Joshua_Dunbar
Matilda_Dunbar
gptkbp:placeOfDeath Woodland_Cemetery,_Dayton,_Ohio
gptkbp:productionCompany 1890s
Early 1900s
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Alice_Ruth_Moore
gptkbp:style Lyric poetry
Narrative poetry
Dramatic poetry