Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/06/2019
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Frick Park
Categories
This television documentary film er explores the career and personal life of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), the first African American to achieve national fame as a writer.
The son of former slaves, Dunbar is best remembered for his poem, We Wear the Mask and for the lines from “Sympathy” that became the title of Maya Angelou’s autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Admission is free to this screening in the park’s environmental center. Presented in conjunction with the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center. For more information, call Samuel W. Black at (412) 454-6391.
Address
Frick Park,
Pittsburgh,
PA
15217
United States