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Title	When Malindy Sings
Subject	African American Ohioans Literary Ohio Poetry Music Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
Place	Dayton (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description	The title poem from Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1903 collection When Malindy Sings is a tribute to his mother's spontaneous outbursts of singing as she worked in the kitchen. This is an example of one of Dunbar's dialect poems written in the black vernacular. The book has blue-line decorations by Margaret Armstrong and is illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. The book measures 6" x 8.75" (15.24 x 22.23 cm). It is 144 pages long and has gilding on the top of the pages. Twenty-four pages are represented here. Dunbar (1872-1906) is acknowledged as the first significant African American poet in the United States. He was born Dayton, Ohio to parents who had been slaves. After high school, the Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur) assisted Dunbar in publishing the Dayton Tattler, an African-American newspaper. His first book of poetry, Oak and Ivy, was published in 1893. It was followed by Lyrics of a Lowly Life, and Majors and Minors, ten other books of poetry, four books of short stories, five novels, and a play
Creator	Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
Date of Original	1903
Source	Published material PS1556 .W4 1903x
Submitting Institution	Ohioana Library
Type	Text

Title	Om1728_1859421_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1728_1859421_001.tif
Image Height	2622
Image Width	1771
File Size	1361.832 KB
Full Text	TW

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