Beyond the Mask:Paul Laurence Dunbar - The Documentary by Fredrick Lewis

56r School Street,Oak Bluffs MA 02557

10 August, 2022

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Join Award winning filmmaker Fredrick Lewis for a screening and discussion of the documentary Beyond the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar. This year marks the 150th anniversary of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the Mask” is a 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.”  A clip of Angelou reciting Dunbar’s poem on the David Frost Show is featured. Dunbar’s story is also the story of the African American experience around the turn of the century. The man Abolitionist Frederick Do“uglass called