were built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to provide housing for African Americans. Bibliography Works of poetry Oak and Ivy (1892) Majors and Minors (1896) Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896) "We Wear the Mask" (1896) Li'l' Gal (1896) When Malindy Sings (1896) Poems of Cabin and Field (1899) The Haunted Oak (1900) Candle-lightin' Time (1901) Lyrics of the Hearthside published (1902), copyright date of 1899 Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (1905) Joggin' Erlong (1906) Short stories and novels Folks From Dixie (1898), short story collection The Uncalled (1898), novel The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection of Stories The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories (1900). The Love of Landry "was deemed unconvincing in its presentation of white characters and was dismissed as inferior to Dunbar's tales of blacks." The Fanatics, "about America at the beginning of the Civil War. Its central characters are from white families who differ in their North-South sympathies and spark a dispute in their Ohio community. The Fanatics was a commercial failure upon publication, and in the ensuing years it has continued to be regarded as a superficial, largely uncompelling work." The Sport of the Gods (1902), novel In Old Plantation Days (1903), short story collection. Articles "Representative American Negroes", in The Negro Problem, by Booker T. Washington, et al. See also "Ode to Ethiopia", one poem in the collection Oak and Ivy. African-American literature Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, black composer References Notes Works cited Alexander, Eleanor C. Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore. New York: New York University Press, 2001. . Best, Felton O. Crossing the Color Line: A Biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872–1906. Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1996. . Nettels, Elsa. Language, Race, and Social Class in Howells's America. University Press of Kentucky, 1988. . Wagner, Jean. Black Poets of the United States: From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes. University of Illinois Press, 1973. . Further reading Tim Brooks, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919, pp. 260–267. University of Illinois Press, 2004. Early recordings of his work. Lida Keck Wiggins, The Life and Works of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Winston-Derek, 1992. . External links Paul Laurence Dunbar: Online Resources, Library of Congress Dunbar House State Historical Site, Ohio Historical Society Dunbar House is part of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, which