On February 9, 1906, acclaimed poet and author Paul Laurence Dunbar died at the age of 33 in Dayton, Ohio. One of the first African American writers to gain national recognition, Dunbar was celebrated for his dialect poetry as well as his standard English works, which explored Black life in America at the turn of the 20th century.
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