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Dunbar is a major historical literary figure in our society today. Paul Dunbar wrote and created hundreds of works. Some were successful, and some weren’t as popular, but they all spoke about Dunbar’s feelings. Dunbar wrote about slavery, freedom, and his g ....

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.... school with such people as the Wright Brothers. Dunbar began to build a reputation for himself, and at the tender age of twenty, wrote his first book, Oak and Ivy . At the age of twenty-one, while Dunbar was still working as an elevator boy at a local hotel, he received the welcomest news that he had ever heard. Dunbar received a personal invitation to recite some of his poetry at the 1893 Worlds Fair. While at the Worlds Fair later that year, Dunbar was introduced to Fredrick Douglass, who not only took Dunbar on as an employee, but as a student to his great legacy. At that point, Dunbar buckled down and got to work, he was soon publishing ....