While area leaders, civic activists and historians marked the past of the Wright brothers and their friend, African-American author Paul Laurence Dunbar, the park has prepared to acquire the old ...

narrator: The Dunbar house is a keystone within the Wright-Dunbar district, the Third Street section of Dayton that the Wright Brothers and Paul Dunbar called home. For 40 years, this part of town ...

DAYTON – Paul Laurence Dunbar wasn’t the most famous member of the Dayton Central High School Class of 1890. But he left as big a mark on the world, in his own way, as did his classmate ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. ... Their friendship led to business as the Wright brothers, ...

The Wright brothers, who owned a printing press, were the first to publish Dunbar’s writings, including the newspaper he started and edited in 1890. The Dayton Tattler was the first Black ...

Ohio-born poet Paul Laurence Dunbar will be in the spotlight on Feb. 23 as St. Paul Lutheran Church in Massillon hosts a celebration of his works. ... The Wright Brothers were schoolmates, ...

The new Third Street Bridge, or Peace Bridge, completed in 2021, provides the gateway into west Dayton, and includes images of both Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Wright Brothers.

Not just a history lesson about the Wright Brothers and Paul Laurence Dunbar, but also the woman who carried the baton, Idotha Bootsie Neal. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter] ...

When the Wright brothers finally succeeded in getting their flyer airborne, many didn’t believe they had really done it. ... the Black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906.. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of ...