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PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, BEYOND THE MASK

By Frederick LEWIS

ARTMATTAN PRODUCTIONS - as SALES / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video

Documentary - Completed 2020

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 105 mn
- Director(s)
- Frederick LEWIS
- Synopsis
- Documentary on the life and legacy of the first African American to achieve national fame as a writer. Born to former slaves in Dayton, Ohio, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), is best remembered for his poem, “We Wear the Mask” and for lines from “Sympathy” that became the title of Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”