Epic EVENTS of the epoch
|
|
- Paul Laurence Dunbar becomes a significant figure in the world of poetry
- He used dialect in many of his early poems. This was something many blacks didn't appreciate.
- He wrote We Wear the Mask.
- Ida B. Wells wrote The Red Record
- Anna Julia Cooper became a well-known educator during this time period.
- She wrote A Voice from the South
- Her work spoke to the experience of Black American women during this time
Analysis
The Scarlet Woman; Fenton Johnson
- Born in Chicago
- Raised around the situations he wrote about
- First published in the 1900s.