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FREEDOMWAYS    
FOURTH QUARTER 1972

working to supply the ever-increasing demand for his short stories and poetry. In less than ten years of writing he produced four novels, four collections of short stories and three books of poetry.

In 1897 Dunbar toured England and became assistant in the Library of Congress, where he remained until December of 1898. He composed the Tuskegee Song for Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. Also in 1898 he married Alice Ruth Moore and wrote a novel, The Uncalled, and Folks from Dixie, which was a collection of short stories. Due to illness, in 1899, Dunbar and his family moved to Harmon, Colorado, where they remained for one year and he wrote Lyrics of the Hearthside, Poems of Cabin and Field. 

Paul Laurence Dunbar was born in 1872 near the end of the Reconstruction period. He died in 1906, one year after W.E.B. Du Bois and other black radicals founded the Niagara Movement, three years before the founding of the N.A.A.C.P. 

John Henrik Clarke

A FILM BIOGRAPHY OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

Written and directed by Carlton Moss, lecturer in Comparative Culture, University of California at Irvine; film writer, producer and consultant instructor, Fisk University Art Department.

For information write: Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee. 

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